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What is a millstone?

What is a millstone? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A large round stone used for grinding grain.
  2. (geology) A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit.
  3. (figuratively) Often in a millstone round one's neck (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible): a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear.
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New Brunswick's quartzose sandstones were quarried for decades as dimension stone, millstone and grindstone material.
That is like a millstone around his neck and one that made him a tad tetchy when the subject was inevitably raised again yesterday.
If so, are the millstone and putto in keeping with his approach to such illustrations?
I wonder when I reflect under what influence I was brought up, that my heart is not harder than the nether millstone.
When is a corporate war chest not a war chest, but instead could be a corporate millstone?
But the fact is some manses can be a real millstone, because you have got to pay for heating and lighting out of your own stipend.

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