People ground their corn with this before the invention of querns and milk.
Querns were in use before the earliest time that our history reaches; and water-mills were introduced before the arrival of St. Patrick.
These wooden querns were used during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Closely akin to mortars were the querns or small mills used for grinding purposes from the Roman period.
There were (and are) on the circular road by which I had desired Matthew Querns to drive us, some of those nuisances called turnpikes.
However, “no matter,” again said I; so I desired old Matthew Querns to pay the turnpike.
Among the relics are not only large hollow polishing-stones and round rubbers, but also fragments of true querns or handmills, the presence of which appeared to have astonished Dr.
Now, querns are never found among the remains of the Swiss lake-dwellings, nor am I aware of their existence in any prehistoric remains in northern or western Europe prior to Roman times.
Upon this had been deposited a stratum of stones and gravel, amongst which were found the querns already mentioned.
The quernsfrequently found in all parts of the Highlands shew that the ancient inhabitants grew some corn,--that they had some acquaintance with "the staff of life.
That some corn was grown is manifest, from the ancient querns or hand-mills found everywhere.
This entire fleet of ancient boats, together with several querns and bones found in the locality, were, in 1868, at Brittas, the residence of the Right Hon.
Querns are evidently the next step in food-making machinery.
At another primitive island querns were in use and "ordinary families" were "only beginning to indulge in tombstones.
Saddle-querns of the same character occur also in France.
This man turned out querns at from ten to twelve shillings each, and got a ready sale for them; Mr. Trevelyan recommended them to all, but it would seem their sale was confined to the locality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "querns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
