Grist

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Supply; provision.

II. Grist ·noun 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.

III. Grist ·noun 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.