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Pestle   Listen
noun
pestle  n.  
1.
An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar; as, to grind with a mortar and pestle.
2.
A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape. (Obs.)
3.
The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.


verb
pestle  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. pestled; pres. part. pestling)  To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.





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"Pestle" Quotes from Famous Books



... three dishes, by putting either water or the milk of the cocoa-nut to it, then beating it to a paste with a stone pestle, and afterwards mixing it with ripe plantains, bananas, or the sour paste which they ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr
... own that I hired a stout nag from the landlord's stable after dinner, and rode back at nightfall twenty miles to my old home. My heart beat to see it. Barryville had got a pestle and mortar over the door, and was called 'The Esculapian Repository,' by Doctor Macshane; a red-headed lad was spreading a plaster in the old parlour; the little window of my room, once so neat and ...
— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray
... different employments during life; but they were all broken, as if to be employed no more. A piece of fishing-net and a broken paddle told where a fisherman lay. The graves of the women had the wooden mortar, and the heavy pestle used in pounding the corn, and the basket in which the meal is sifted, while all had numerous broken calabashes and pots arranged around them. The idea that the future life is like the present does not appear to prevail; yet a banana-tree had been carefully planted ...
— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone
... in olden times in a primitive and picturesque Indian mortar made of a hollowed block of wood or a stump of a tree, which had been cut off about three feet from the ground. The pestle was a heavy block of wood shaped like the inside of the mortar, and fitted with a handle attached to one side. This block was fastened to the top of a young and slender tree, a growing sapling, which was bent over ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
... all ages sat on hard benches or on the bare earth, according to the state of the upper atmosphere. The master, attired in a dirty blouse, sat unflinchingly on the table, so as to dominate the whole school-room, and between his knees he held a bowl, in which, with a gigantic pestle, he brayed tobacco into snuff. The only work he did many a day was to beat some child black and blue, and sometimes in a savage fit of rage he would half wring off a boy's ear, or almost gouge out an eye. The ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill


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