Pestle

Quick meaning: Pestle is a noun meaning A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.

Meaning

A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.

More Meanings

1. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.
2. (transitive) To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.
3. (archaic) A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.

Example Sentences

a pestle of pork

[…]whether the chopping-knife or their pestles were the better weapons

‘Next time, boy, that you use that mortar for garlic, I will personally knock out your brain, place it in the said mortar, pestle it to a fine paste and give it to Dick Purser for feeding the dogs.’

She then sat down by the fire, and carefully separated the stone from the pulp, which she burnt; and her next task was to extract the kernel, which she did by means of a heavy pestle and the hearth. The kernels were next crushed together, and placed to simmer over the furnace.

Word Forms

• pestles
• pestling
• pestled

Synonyms for pestle

Depending on context, synonyms include stamp.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stamp, pillar, drumstick, polt, percussor, pounder.

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