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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: All is grist that comes to his mill (0.00917 detik)
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Definition: All is grist that comes to his mill
Grist
\Grist\, n. [AS. grist, fr. grindan. See
Grind.]
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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.
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Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store.
--Tusser. Q.
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2. Supply; provision. --Swift.
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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.
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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.
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