Pestle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A club-shaped, hand-held tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
  • n. A large bar moved vertically to stamp or pound, as in a press or mill.
  • v. To pound, grind, or mash with or as if with a pestle.
  • verb-intransitive. To use a pestle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
  • v. To pound, crush, rub or grind (things), as in a mortar with a pestle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • v. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An instrument for pounding and breaking a substance in a mortar.
  • n. In machinery:
  • n. The vertically moving bar of a stamp-mill.
  • n. One of the pounders or mallets used in a fulling-mill.
  • n. The leg of certain animals, especially of the pig.
  • n. A short staff carried by a constable or bailiff. Compare mace.
  • To break or pound with a pestle; pulverize, grind, or rub with a pestle, as in a mortar.
  • To use a pestle; pound.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
  • v. grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar
  • 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
    • Verb Form
    pestled    pestles    pestling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    machine    crunch    grind    comminute    bray    mash    hand tool    tool   
    Cross Reference
    knight of the pestle   
    Form
    pestled    pestling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pounder    muller    brayer   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mallet    howitzer    crucis    uoluerit   
     
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