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PESTLE

/ˈpɛsəl/

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What does PESTLE mean?

noun

  1. A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
  2. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.

verb

  1. To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (archaic) A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈpɛsəl/

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As each one lifts her pestle, she deftly sweeps back into the pit with her foot the grain scattered by her stroke.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
There is one peculiarly fascinating machine in which a mechanical pestle, moving in an eccentric orbit, twists the flat leaf into the familiar narrow crescents that we infuse daily.
Frederic, Lord HamiltonHere, There and EverywhereProject Gutenberg ebook #6368
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In short, a frontal pouch, with deep pulsations momentarily renewed, becomes the instrument of deliverance, the pestle wherewith the newly hatched bluebottle bruises the sand and causes it to crumble.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
To illustrate my meaning: let one place any hard substance, consisting of large fragments, in a mortar, and proceed to reduce it with a pestle to a fine powder.
Ignatius DonnellyRagnarok : the Age of Fire and GravelProject Gutenberg ebook #5109