Millstone Manor....Any significance to the name?

[frankdicer]

Millstone Manor....I've sometimes wondered if there was a special significance to the choosing of that name for the country inn.

All I can think about is phrase: Millstone around the neck
denoting a severe punishing. Could that have been a direction
the writers thought of going down?

Any comments?

[Tiddles]

That would follow quite nicely. If a "millstone" is a form of punishment, then it's surely fitting to call the place "Millstone Manor." After all, the Grace Brothers staff surely expected a charmed retirement, and ended up planting taters, being waitstff, milking cows.....it makes sense to me!

[sonosun]

I agree with Tiddles. :o

[dazzlestar14]

I always found the name to sound pretty and charming.

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

I just figured it was "country-ish" millstones frind the wheat and grain into powder and the manor is in the country where such things happen ?? I like the punishment idea though....

[frankdicer]

I just figured it was "country-ish" millstones frind the wheat and grain into powder and the manor is in the country where such things happen ?? I like the punishment idea though....


The actual reference I was thinking of is from the bible.
"Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believed in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." Matthew 18:6
which became used popularly. To have a great weight bearing on a person
was to have a millstone around the neck.

Here is an example of how it was used secularly(Googled it):
Teetering on the edge of almost certain bankruptcy, the gallery is about to become a millstone around the neck of Waterloo taxpayers.

Of course Greg is right about millstones were used to grind wheat for
flour.

There's the bell...Class Dismissed!

[Tiddles]

Of course Greg is right about millstones were used to grind wheat for
flour

That makes sense as well. They suffered "the daily grind" of physical labor when the expected the luxury and contentment of retirement. It all works!

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

I always wonder what that thing was around my neck !!! :lol2: