pestle

1. n. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar. Source: opted

2. n. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. Source: opted

3. n. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork. Source: opted

4. v. t. & i. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle. Source: opted

5. n. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores Source: wordnet

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 Source: wordnet

7. n. a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar Source: wordnet

8. v. grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

10. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with apestle; to use a pestle. Source: adambom

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 Source: ecdict

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