mill job
A mill is a stone used in a mill to grind grain and is operated by hand, animal power, wind, or water current. Including the circular stone grinding wheel, which is made of two stones which form a circle and separated from the middle, and the first one is placed on the second in parallel, and the material to be ground is lowered from a small hole in the middle of them, and it is moved by hand until the material is crushed, a machine that is still used in some Moroccan regions.
It's a tool for everyday use, and it's not seasonal as some people think. In the past, it was present in every home, and our grandmothers and mothers could not do without it, but with development and modernity, nothing remains of it except what is rare in some villages as if it s It was a long lost memory.
A single woman cannot move the big millstone on her own, because of its weight. But usually two women cooperate there to grind the grain, and since the woman sat with this tool for a long time, a solid relationship was established between the woman and the mill, telling her about her feelings and sorrows.
Its use
The mill is one of the tools that the women have been using since early morning. It is a primitive machine made of coarse and heavy stone, used to crush and grind grain. It is two round stones, one on top of the other, and the bottom of them is fixed, while the upper stone moves around a wooden or metal axis, called a millstone. The mill pole , its base is fixed to the bottom of the lower stone, and when the millstone turns, it passes over wheat or barley which is placed from a small circular opening in the middle of the upper stone, and these grains are break down little by little, as the millstone is turned over them until they become fine fine flour suitable for making bread and all things
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