grist

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

grist, n. [AS. grist, fr. grindan. See Grind.].

•  Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.  [1913 Webster]

  "Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store."  [1913 Webster]
•  Supply; provision.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
•  In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]

All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.] -- To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [Colloq.] Ayliffe.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

grist, n.
1 corn to grind.
2 malt crushed for brewing.

Idiom

grist to the (or a person's) mill a source of profit or advantage.

Etymology

OE f. Gmc, rel. to GRIND

ROGET THESAURUS

grist

Materials

N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

Provision

N provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store.