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# mill
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a tool for making flour by grinding grain in between two heavy discs of stone
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# upper millstone
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2023-12-01 17:10:38 +00:00
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the top disc of stone in a mill. To take a person's millstone was to take away how they earned money and produced food.
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# for that would be taking a person's life as a pledge
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"because he would be taking from the man what the man needs to make food for his family"
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