She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.
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Quern
//kwɝn//
Synonyms for "quern" (13 found)
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39 translations across 32 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- երկանք noun (mill)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хромел noun (mill)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دەستاڕ noun (mill)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 手推磨 noun (mill)
Czech
1 entries- žernov noun (mill)
Danish
1 entries- kværn noun (mill)
Dutch
2 entries- handmolen noun (mill)
- kweern noun (mill)
Finnish
2 entries- käsikivi noun (mill)
- mylly noun (mill)
French
1 entries- moulin à bras noun (mill)
Galician
1 entries- muíño noun (mill)
German
2 entries- Handmühle noun (mill)
- Querne noun (mill)
Irish
1 entries- bró noun (mill)
Italian
1 entries- macinatoio a mano noun (mill)
Japanese
2 entries- ひき臼 noun (mill)
- 碾き臼 noun (mill)
Laki
1 entries- دەسەھەڕ noun (mill)
Latvian
2 entries- dzir̃nas noun (mill)
- dzir̃nus noun (mill)
Lithuanian
1 entries- gi̇̀rnos noun (mill)
Manx
1 entries- braain noun (mill)
Middle English
1 entries- querne noun (mill)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- destarr noun (mill)
Norwegian
1 entries- håndkvern noun (mill)
Old Irish
1 entries- bró noun (mill)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ال دكرمنی noun (mill)
Polish
1 entries- żarna noun (mill)
Russian
1 entries- ручна́я ме́льница noun (mill)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- brà noun (mill)
Slovak
1 entries- žarnov noun (mill)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- دەسھەڕ noun (mill)
Spanish
3 entries- metate noun (mill)
- molino de mano noun (mill)
- molino portátil noun (mill)
Swedish
1 entries- kvarn noun (mill)
Ukrainian
1 entries- жо́рна noun (mill)
Welsh
1 entries- breuan noun (mill)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
MacKie has noted that querns that were in use in Scotland up to the present day were about 450mm—600mm in diameter and that the lower stone was completely perforated to make it adjustable (MacKie 1987, 5).
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Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.
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He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.
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