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Pestle

//ˈpɛsəl// noun, verb

Noun

1
A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
"She then sat down by the fire, and carefully separated the stone from the pulp, which she burnt; and her next task was to extract the kernel, which she did by means of a heavy pestle and the hearth. The kernels were next crushed together, and placed to simmer over the furnace."
2
a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar wordnet
3
A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape. archaic
"[…]whether the chopping-knife or their pestles were the better weapons"
4
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 wordnet
5
The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.
"a pestle of pork"

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

Verb

1
To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle. transitive
"‘Next time, boy, that you use that mortar for garlic, I will personally knock out your brain, place it in the said mortar, pestle it to a fine paste and give it to Dick Purser for feeding the dogs.’"
2
grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar wordnet

Etymology 1

From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.

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