Quern Definition

kwûrn
noun
A primitive hand mill, esp. for grinding grain.
Webster's New World
verb

To grind.

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Noun

Singular:
quern
Plural:
querns

Origin of Quern

  • From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill"), from Proto-Germanic *kwernuz, *kwernō (“millstone"), from Proto-Indo-European *gÊ·erǝun-, *gÊ·rāun- (“millstone"). Cognate with North Frisian quern (“quern"), Dutch kweern (“quern"), Middle High German kurn (“millstone"), Danish kværn (“grinder"), Swedish kvarn (“mill, grinder").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English querne from Old English cweorn gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Quern Sentence Examples

  • The quern with rotary motion is late Roman,, and still used by Arabs.

  • The Anglian material The querns Sixty-one lavastone quern fragments were recovered from Period 3 pits and residually in a range of later features.

  • The old hand-mill was known as a " quern," a word which appears in this sense in many Indo-European languages; the ultimate root is gar-, to grind.

  • There can be little doubt that before the AngloSaxons came to Britain they possessed no instrument for grinding corn except the quern (cweorn), and in remote districts this continued in use until quite late times.

  • We may notice also the introduction of the mill in place of the quern which hitherto had been in universal use.

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