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n. A stone block with a shallow concave surface, used with a mano for grinding corn or other grains.

n. A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.

n. A flat or somewhat hollowed stone upon which grain or other food is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle.

n. A primitive hand-mill of stone, usually on three, formerly also on four, legs of the same block. In ancient times the Mexican metate was often elaborately carved, whereas the Peruvian batan is a rude slab. The metate is in common use in the North American Southwest.

"I still wince whenever Roberto reminds me that for centuries, the process of making mole culminated not with the whiz of the blender among the most useful tools in the modern Mexican kitchen, but with painstaking grinding on a shallow, rudimentary stone mortar called a metate."

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