grist
grist is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Supply; provision. Swift.
- 2.In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.] -- To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [Colloq.] Ayliffe.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adobe
- against
- aid
- ammunition
- and
- arm
- arms
- back
- baggage
- batman
- beat
- brick
- brown
- calico
- cambric
- cashmere
- cater
- caterer
- cement
- clapboard
- clay
- commissariat
- commissary
- compo
- composition
- comprador
- concrete
- crockery
- daubing
- day
- due
- economy
- ensilage
- fall
- feed
- feeder
- fill
- find
- food
- foot
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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