queristert

A variant of quirister, for chor ister. = querk1 (kwerk), v. [ II. in trans. To grunt; moan. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] quérulous We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern. Boswell, Johnson, IV. x. The old hand-mill, or quern , such as Pennant sketched the He brides women grinding with in the last century, has not yet gone out; Dr. Mitchell says there are you sands of them at work in Scotland, where still "The music for a hungry wame Is grinding o' the quernie ." E. B. Tylor (Academy, Sept. 18, 1880). 2. A hand-mill used for grinding pepper, mustard, and the like. Such querns were used even on the table, and as early as the sixteenth century. quern (kwėrn), v. t. and i. [Formerly also kern, curn; Fly where men feel The curning [var. cunning ] axel-tree; and those that suffer Beneath the chariot of the snowy beare. Chapman , Bu y D'Ambois, v. quern-stone (kwėrn's ton), n. A millstone. Theyre corne in querns to ans they do grind. Stan i hurst, tr. of Virgil, i. ( Nares.)