Reference: Mill, Millstone
Hastings
1. Three methods of preparing flour were in use in Palestine in Bible times, associated with the mortar and pestle (see Mortar And Pestle), the rubbing-stone, and the quern or handmill. The most primitive apparatus was the rubbing-stone or corn-rubber, which consisted really of two stones. The one on which the corn was ground was a substantial slab, often 2/2 feet long, and about a foot wide, slightly concave and curving upwards, like a saddle, at both ends (illust. in Macalister, Bible Sidelights, etc., fig. 28). The other, the "rubbing-stone proper, was a narrow stone from 12 to 18 inches long, pointed at both ends and also slightly curved, one side being plain and the other convex. In manipulating the rubber, the woman grasped it by both ends and ground the grains of wheat or barley with the convex side. Cf. Macalister's description in Quarterly Statement of the same, 1903, p. 118, with Schumacher's photograph reproduced by Benzinger, Heb. Arch. 2 (1907) 63, and the Egyptian statuette in Erman's Ancient Egypt, 190. Vincent in his Canaan d'apr
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Morish
In the East these are usually small, every family having its own mill. A woman, or sometimes two sit at the mill, turning the upper stone, casting in the grain occasionally through a hole in it Larger mills are also referred to, the stone being turned by an ass. Nu 11:8; Mt 18:6; Mr 9:42; Re 18:21-22.