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quern n : a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand

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Old English cweorn.

A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones
- 1978, She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table. — Robert Nye, Merlin

Quern () is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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quern in Russian: Кверн

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