Definitions For Millstone

noun

  • One of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
  • Any load that is difficult to carry
  • (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
  • Either one of two large, flat, round stones that are used for grinding grain in a mill
  • A problem or responsibility that does not go away and that makes it difficult or impossible to do or achieve something

Is Millstones a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
16

The word Millstone is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Millstone in a Sentence

  • College loans can quickly become a millstone for students.
  • The scandal has become a political millstone.
  • The scandal has been a millstone around her neck.

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