pestle

[Pes·tle]

A pestle is a heavy, blunt tool used to grind things up, such as spices or herbs. If you're grinding spices, you put them in a container called a mortar and use the pestle to smash them up until they're finely ground.

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An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.

Noun
a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar

Noun
a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

Noun
machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

Verb
grind or pulverize in a pestle

n.
An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.

n.
A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.

n.
The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.

v. t. & i.
To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.

Pestle

Pes"tle , n. [OE. pestel, OF. pestel, LL. pestellum, L. pistillum, pistillus, a pounder, pestle, fr. pisere, pinsere, to pound, crush, akin to Gr. , Skr. pish. Cf. Pistil.] 1. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar. 2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. [Obs.] Chapman. 3. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.

Pestle

Pes"tle , v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pestled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pestling .] To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.

An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.

To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.

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