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How to use quern in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word quern? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The food contains the grit from the quern stones and the husks of the rough unengineered wheat used to make the bread.
The foregoer of a mill was a quern, first moved by the power of water and later by the power of wind.
On a more secular level, stone was used for a number of purposes, the most widespread being the manufacture of quern stones and millstones in water-mills.
There is the site of a large Iron Age roundhouse containing a saddle quern at Linkataing in north west Eday.
The grinding of the grain was done with a grindstone called a Rotary Quern, or a Hand Quern if you were poorer.
Examples from Classical Literature
But angels used to grind at the quern for Ciaran's sake on the day that was his.
That quern turned out anything that the grinder chose, though formerly it had ground nothing but peace and gold.
This was their rule, that every bishop19 should grind at the quern on his day.
There stood his sisters by the quern, For the high-noon cakes they needs must earn.
He who presented this quern to Frothi was called Hengikioptr.
He had only to speak the word, and the quern ground out what he wanted.
In the Norse story of Frodi's quern, the myth assumes a whimsical shape.
He asked him for heaven's sake to take back the quern, and that at once.
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