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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Quern

· IPA /kwɝn/
01 n. A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
  1. 1.
    A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
    “They made him at the querne grind.” Chaucer.