資料來源 : pyDict
穀物,大量
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Grist \Grist\, n. [AS. grist, fr. grindan. See {Grind}.]
1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much
grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal
it produces.
Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store.
--Tusser. Q.
2. Supply; provision. --Swift.
3. In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a
rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in
each of the three strands. --Knight.
{All is grist that comes to his mill}, all that he has
anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.]
{To bring grist to the maill}, to bring profitable business
into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [Colloq.]
--Ayliffe.
資料來源 : WordNet®
grist
n : grain intended to be or that has been ground