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Millrind

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let into the runner stone. The device allowed the runner stone to move in two planes and thus follow the nether (stationary) stone more closely, but great care had to be taken to ensure that its weight was properly balanced. The separation of the nether stone from the runner, controlling the fineness
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The rind is affixed to the top of the square-section main shaft or spindle and supports the entire weight of the runner stone, which can be as much as several tons. The face of a runner stone usually has a carved depression, called the "Spanish cross", to accommodate the millrind. The rind is
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characterized it as a symbol fit for judges and magistrates, who keep men on a straight course just as a millrind does with a runner stone. However it is more often found in
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necessary because the grain is fed through the runner stone's central hole, so the spindle cannot be inserted through it like a cartwheel on an axle.
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of families with names such as Miller, Milne and Mills and Turner, Turnor and Turnour.
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to raise or lower the bearing carrying the base of spindle.
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A millrind forms the central part of the insignia of the
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A later refinement, replacing the cross, was to mount a
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cross
upper ("runner") stone
millstones
gimbal
screw jack
charge
heraldry
Bossewell
canting arms
cross moline
blazons
Various millrinds and other mill equipment
A millstone and rind at the Doesburgermolen in Ede, Netherlands
Doesburgermolen
Ede, Netherlands
A rind on an early tombstone in Stobo Kirk, Peeblesshire
Stobo Kirk
The arms of Speccot, of Speccot, in the parish of Merton, Devon: Or, on a bend gules three millrinds argent
Speccot
Merton
The helmet of John de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle (d.1355), as represented on his Garter stall plate, with a millstone and rind as his crest
John de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle
Garter stall plate
crest
The arms of Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, with two millrinds
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd
The canting arms of Sir Guy Ferre (d.1323): A fer de moline over all a bendlet, at Butley Priory, Suffolk
canting arms
Butley Priory

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