A stone used in grinding or crushing, particularly in mills; also called a bray stone or mulier stone.
From 'bray' (to crush or grind) + 'stone.' The verb 'bray' meant to crush or grind in medieval English, creating this compound.
A braystone is a grinding stone, so the name comes from the crushing action — medieval millers would have recognized exactly what this stone did!
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