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grist

  [grist]
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–noun
1. grain to be ground.
2. ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
3. a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
4. Older Use. a quantity or lot.
–verb (used with object)
5. to grind (grain).
—Idiom
6. grist for or to one's mill, something employed to one's profit or advantage, esp. something seemingly unpromising: Every delay was so much more grist for her mill.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE; akin to OE grindan to grind

Related forms:
grister, noun
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grist   (grĭst)   
n.  

  1. Grain or a quantity of grain for grinding.

  2. Ground grain.


[Middle English, from Old English grīst; see ghrendh- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

grist 
O.E. grist "action of grinding, grain to be ground," perhaps related to grindan "to grind" (see grind). Meaning "wheat which is to be ground" is c.1430; the figurative extension from this sense is from the same date.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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