27 July 2013

grist

[grist]

noun

1. grain to be ground.
2. ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
3. a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
4. Older Use. a quantity or lot.
verb (used with object)
5. to grind (grain).
Idioms
6. grist for / to one’s mill, something employed to one’s profit or advantage, especially something seemingly unpromising: e.g. Every delay was so much more grist for her mill.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English; akin to Old English grindan to grind

Today’s aphorism

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

– Karl Marx

On this day

27 July 1836 – founding of Adelaide, South Australia.

27 July 1935 – Yangtze River, China, floods kill up to 200,000 people.

27 July 1940 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the cartoon, ‘Wild Hare’.

27 July 2012 – XXX Olympiad opens in London.