Handstone

Cornsilk slammed her handstone down into the meal.

With each stroke she pressed the handstone down over the corn.

To my surprise it turned out to be a broken half of a well-crafted Indian mano, or handstone.

The simplest method is to place a handful of grain on a smooth, flat rock on the ground, and then lean forward and use your body weight to crush and grind it beneath a handstone.

I believe if we refer to these poems that the accounts before us of a stone implement called the champion handstone, Leacan Laoich Milidh and Lia Lamha Laich, will closely tally with this object.

In the record of the Ford of Comar, near Fore, in the county of Westmeath, which is supposed to have occrred in the century before the Christian era, Lohar's people all came with a champion's handstone stowed away in the hollow of their shields.

Each time the axe is used, hone or touch up the edge with a handstone.

The ease with which the handstone moves across the hide depends on the amount of connective tissue and moisture on the hide.