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In the East these are usually small, every family having its own mill. A woman, or sometimes two sit at the mill, turning the upper stone, casting in the grain occasionally through a hole in it Larger mills are also referred to, the stone being turned by an ass. Num. 11: 8; Matt. 18: 6; Mark 9: 42; Rev. 18: 21, 22.