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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 743 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUERN  , the See also:

primitive See also:form of See also:hand-See also:mill for grinding See also:corn, consisting of two See also:flat circular stones; the See also:lower See also:stone, often shaped with a rim, has a wooden or See also:metal See also:pin in the centre which passes through a hole in the upper stone; the worker pours the See also:grain through the hole with one hand, revolving the upper stone with the other by means of a peg fixed to one See also:side . The Old See also:English word is cweorn; it is a word See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf . Du. kweern, Swed. qvarn and various forms in Old See also:German; cognate words are found in See also:Slavonic languages pointing to a pre-See also:Aryan See also:root .

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