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Noun
  1. Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
  2. (obsolete) A group of bees.
  3. (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
  4. (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
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Gun control, crime statistics, global warming and passive smoking are grist to his mill.
But it will fall back to a level of immobility and indecisiveness that can only add grist to the mill of the neoliberals.
Census of 1861 reported that there were 13 flour and grist mills operating in Simcoe County.
This result will be grist for many theoretical papers no doubt, but at the moment we have no understanding of why it is so.
He makes some daring analyses about censor interference that were fascinating grist for rumination.
James Joyce valued the everyday, but only if it could be grist to the mill of his highly formal art.

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