About The Word Pestle
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Pestle
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What's The Definition Of Pestle?
[n] a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
[n] 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 [n] machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores [v] grind or pulverize in a pestle Synonyms | Synonyms for Pestle: muller | pounder | stamp Related Terms | Find terms related to Pestle: abrade | atomize | beat | bray | brecciate | cheese grater | comminute | comminutor | contriturate | crumb | crumble | crush | crusher | disintegrate | flour | fragment | grain | granulate | granulator | granulize | grate | grater | grind | grind to powder | grinder | kominuter | levigate | levigator | mash | masher | mill | millstone | mortar and pestle | nutmeg grater | pound | powder | pulverize | pulverizer | quern | quernstone | reduce to powder | rock crusher | roller | scrunch | shard | shred | shredder | smash | squash | steamroller | triturate | triturator See Also | battery | bray | comminute | crunch | grind | hand tool | machine | mash | stamp battery | tool Pestle In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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. |
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