Meaning of PESTLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pesul
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | muller, pounder, stamp |
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| | See Also: | | battery, bray, comminute, crunch, grind, hand tool, machine, mash, stamp battery, tool | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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