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PESTLE
/ˈpɛsəl/
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What does PESTLE mean?
noun
- A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
- The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.
verb
- To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic) A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.
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/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.
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.
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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.
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.