The miller's craft also included the grinding mills, where various grains were coarsely ground in the horse-driven mills and were often used to flavour beer.
A mill where groat was milled and sold, and ripe graot at that, as if that did not speak for itself. Graot is more or less a collective name for all kinds of crops, which were crushed or ground.
But "reyp" is also the Maastricht dialect word for wheel or hoop, and on the gable stone it is possibly a reference to the wheel set in motion by the blind horse. Perhaps it also refers to the circle that the poor animal had to walk all the time and which is depicted in the form of a ring. But that may be a bit far-fetched.
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