Grinder

GRINDER.—The ‘grinders’ of Ecc 12:3 are women grinding at the mill. But in Job 29:17 m the ‘grinders’ are the molar teeth. Holland, Pliny, xi. 37, says, ‘The great grinders which stand beyond the eye-teeth, in no creature whatsoever do fall out of themselves.’

grı̄n´dẽr. See MILL.