{"id":14335,"count":4,"description":"Millstones or mill stones are used in windmills and watermills, including tide mills, for grinding wheat or other grains.\nThe type of stone most suitable for making millstones is a siliceous rock called burrstone (or buhrstone), an open-textured, porous but tough, fine-grained sandstone, or a silicified, fossiliferous limestone. In some sandstones, the cement is calcareous.\nMillstones used in Britain were commonly of two types:\nIn Europe, a third type of millstone was used. These were uncommon in Britain, but not unknown.\nIn India, grinding stones (Chakki) were used to grind grains and spices. These consist of a stationary stone cylinder upon which a smaller stone cylinder rotates. Smaller ones, for household use, were operated by two people. Larger ones, for community or commercial use, used livestock to rotate the upper cylinder.\nA runner stone is the upper of a pair of working millstones. The runner stone spins above the stationary bedstone creating the \"scissoring\" or grinding...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/millstone\/","name":"Millstone","slug":"millstone","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/14335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}