Synonym: albatross. Similar words: gallstone, mary wollstonecraft, well stocked, mills, hailstone, milestone, carry coals to Newcastle, winston churchill. Meaning: ['mɪlstəʊn] n. 1. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps 2. any load that is difficult to carry 3. one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain.
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31. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.
32. The deals a millstone around Mbeki's neck, and so began the cover - up.
33. His son is a millstone around [ about ] his neck.
34. Having removed the millstone of Kingsnorth, he should set out plans that see no emissions at all from any new coal plants and a fixed date by which all existing plants are retrofitted with CCS.
35. It was originally named Millstone Hill for its circular shape.
36. Rosamund, the heroine in Margaret Drabble's novel The Millstone, is one of the representatives of the new female intellectuals growing up under the influence of Simone de Beauvoir.
37. I can see into a millstone, as the saying be.
38. Their other name, Mola mola, is -- it sounds Hawaiian, but it's actually Latin for millstone, and that's attributable to their roundish, very bizarre, cut-off shape.
More similar words: gallstone, mary wollstonecraft, well stocked, mills, hailstone, milestone, carry coals to Newcastle, winston churchill, kill two birds with one stone, pollster, pull strings, frills, hillside, retail store, mill, millet, as old as the hills, sawmill, milled, stone, milling, million, histone, windmill, mill about, millibar, millpond, millions, stonewall, boston.