Gristmill
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A gristmill grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separated from its chaff in pr
Allied Mills flour mill on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in North West England, 2010
Senenu Grinding Grain, c. 1352–1336 BC. The royal scribe Senenu appears here bent over a large grinding stone. This unusual sculpture seems to be an elaborate version of a shabti, a funerary figurine placed in the tomb to work in place of the deceased. Brooklyn Museum.
The basic anatomy of a millstone. The diagram depicts a runner stone.
Grinding mechanism in an old Swedish flour mill, 2005
Windmill
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A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone wind
Gristmill
…which were used for grinding grain and other seeds to produce meals. Gristmills in the Islamic world were powered by both water and wind. The first wind-powered gristmills were built in the 9th and 10th centuries in what are now Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. The Egyptian town of Bilbays had a grain-processing…
Windmill in Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark. Dutch type, built in 1895.
Hooper's Mill, Margate, Kent, an eighteenth-century European horizontal windmill
A windmill in Kotka, Finland in May 1987
Windmill in the Azores islands, Portugal