millstone
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
she was an albatross around his neck
Types & categories
- hindrance hypernym
Sense 2 noun
any load that is difficult to carry
Types & categories
- loading hypernym
Sense 3 noun
one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
Types & categories
- stone hypernym
Parts & wholes
- gristmill part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hindrance |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | loading |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | gristmill |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | stone |