millstone
About 0.31 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A large round stone used for grinding grain.
- noun A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit.
- noun Ellipsis of millstone around one's neck, a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible).
Paying the mortgage every month is a millstone round their necks.
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Often followed by
grit around of round were about and hill to
Word family
millstones
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