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Pestle

noun

Machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores. Synonym: stamp.

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. Synonyms: muller, pounder.

A club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar.

verb

(past & past part. pestled; pres. part. pestling)

Grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar.

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"Pestle" Quotes from Famous Books

... eight miles away. There he boarded with a family by the name of Clark, and at odd times helped in the apothecary-shop of Mr. Clark, cleaning bottles and making pills. He himself has told us that the working with mortar and pestle, cutting the pills in exact cubes, and then rolling one in each hand between thumb and finger, did him a lot of good, whether the patients were benefited ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists • Elbert Hubbard

... the way when she left the fields, for the road led straight into the High Street of Dinham, where the chemist's shop was. Iris entered it rather shyly, for her first excitement was a good deal sobered; there was Mr Wrench behind the counter with his red head bent over a pestle and mortar; he hardly looked up as Iris presented the bottle. "Who's it for?" he asked shortly, without ceasing ...

— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton

... said he, peering over a mortar in which he was rubbing up something with the pestle. ...

— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat

... and a cigar box without a crack in it, and also without a cigar. It looked as though it had been carefully opened, emptied, and laid down. There was no end to the surprises of this search: things brayed to pieces as if with a pestle and ...

— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... care to own that I hired a stout nag from the landlord's stable after dinner, and rode back at nightfall twenty miles to my old home. My heart beat to see it. Barryville had got a pestle and mortar over the door, and was called 'The Esculapian Repository,' by Doctor Macshane; a red-headed lad was spreading a plaster in the old parlour; the little window of my room, once so neat and bright, was cracked in many places, and stuffed with rags here and there; the flowers ...

— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray

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