The crushed malt, called grist, is then mixed with hot water and left to stand so the starch can be converted into malt sugars. From Wordnik.com. [ Star] Reference
There was very little that was not "grist" which came to the "mill" of. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real] Reference
The former president turned to a few general issues, saying he hoped to provide "grist" for the mills of the netroots. From Wordnik.com. [Ari Melber: Bill Clinton Heralds Blogs and Answers Heckler at Netroots Convention] Reference
Do not go above 50% brown flour in the flour "grist". From Wordnik.com. [The Fresh Loaf] Reference
"And we," said the teeth, "give our life to crushing the grist which is brought to the mill. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Famous Fables] Reference
Memory becomes scene, grist for the creative mill. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Palumbo: "MIRROR IMAGE"--Reflections on Fact and Fiction] Reference
Perhaps that dark subject is grist for another book. From Wordnik.com. [How Cities Bounce Back] Reference
There's no grist for the mill or siller for the till. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Necessity is a sauce that makes every grist palatable. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical'] Reference
All that's grist for those who want the project to fail. From Wordnik.com. [THE ENEMIES WITHIN] Reference
This year I have more grist for my mill than ever before. From Wordnik.com. [Peace On Earth Good Will.Com] Reference
And candidates, desperate for attention, provide the grist. From Wordnik.com. [The 1,440-Minute Cycle] Reference
There's grist enough here for a hundred anger-management seminars. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Race] Reference
There were there quite a number employed upon the lumber and grist. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
We know that death sells, and that sadness is grist for creativity. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning All The Way To No. 1] Reference
Cheney chuckled, providing grist for four more Stephen King novels. From Wordnik.com. [Gee, If Only We'd Known!] Reference
Captain Sutter at a grist-mill he was building still lower down the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Even if it is wise, it will become grist for yet more anti-American slogans. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With The U.S: It's Just Too Darn Big] Reference
But before they were Wall Street grist, the working poor were good business. From Wordnik.com. [Digging into finance's pay dirt: The risky business of payday loans and more] Reference
Broadcasting the OJ. case will give law professors grist for decades of debate. From Wordnik.com. [How To Run A Textbook Trial] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) CONAN: Well, a lot of people provide grist for John Stewart. From Wordnik.com. [McChrystal Resigns, Obama Names Petraeus] Reference
For years, versions of that nightmare scenario have been grist for doomsday prophets. From Wordnik.com. [Future Shock] Reference
Mr. WARTHEN: It does, although we're still providing plenty of grist for John Stewart. From Wordnik.com. [McChrystal Resigns, Obama Names Petraeus] Reference
Every day I managed to pick up choice morsels of gossip there that was grist to my mill. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
And therefore, neighbors, you will kindly excuse my hobby: it carries grist to your mill. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
But before they were Wall Street grist, the working poor had to first become big business. From Wordnik.com. [Policing Main Street] Reference
But that flip-flop isn't the only grist for the prosecution should he be called to testify. From Wordnik.com. [Tell It To The Marines] Reference
But a special prosecutor poking into their world can only see grist for subpoenas -- or worse. From Wordnik.com. [Drip, Drip, Drip] Reference
"The bigger fool him; it was a 'grist that cam' to my mill when I was mowing down the twenties.". From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Some of the scenes portrayed by Woodward's new book will be grist for late-night talk-show comics for weeks to come. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's Other Side] Reference
But it certainly is grist for the mill of those who are politicking on the president and looking forward to the midterm elections. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: More Americans Convinced Obama Is A Muslim] Reference
Among the advances of this year was the erection of a saw and grist mill which supplied the colony with lumber and with flour and feed. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The Red Mill was a grist mill, and Mr. Jabez Potter made wheat-flour, buckwheat, cornmeal, or ground any grist that was brought to him. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Several houses building together, with the industrious appearance of saw and grist mills, give it the appearance of a place of business. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
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