Thesaurus: pestle

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1. n. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
2. n. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
3. n. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
4. v. t. & i. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
5. n. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
6. 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
7. n. a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
8. v. grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar
9. 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. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
10. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with apestle; to use a pestle.
11. v:17/n:83 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. a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar v. grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar