gristmill

noun, a mill for grinding grain (COD), see also grist

“He run the gristmill up there. That’s where I took the feed.”

“I have a boat, and we were up the Rideau for four days and yeah, I mean that’s just a masterpiece, eh, the largest engineering project in the world at the time of construction. And you think of all the gristmills and lumber mills, and there was woolen mills that were flooded out when they raised the water up.”

“It’s things that I hadn’t even thought of … before I read the history on it, and what entrepreneurs there were back then … to start lumber mills, gristmills, woolen mills, and breweries. Whatever the heck was needed for communities, it was in each community.”