Pestle meaning

pĕs'əl, pĕs'təl
A club-shaped, handheld tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
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A large bar moved vertically to stamp or pound, as in a press or mill.
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To pound, grind, or mash with or as if with a pestle.
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A tool, usually club-shaped, used to pound or grind substances in a mortar.
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Any of several tools for pounding, grinding, or stamping.
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To pound, grind, crush, etc. with or as with a pestle.
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A club-shaped, handheld tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
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A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
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(archaic) A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.

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The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.

A pestle of pork.

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To pound, crush, rub or grind (things), as in a mortar with a pestle.
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To use a pestle.
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Origin of pestle

  • Middle English pestel from Old French from Latin pistillum
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Via Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pÄ«nsō (“pound, beat"). Cognate to pesto.
    From Wiktionary

Pestle Sentence Examples

  • Even the Calaveras man is no exception, since his skull and his polished conical pestle, the latter made of stone more recent than the auriferous gravels, show him to have been of Digger Indian type.

  • Picumnus, a rustic deity (like Picus) and husband of Pomona, is specially concerned with the manuring of the soil and hence called Sterquilinus, while Pilumnus is the inventor of the pounding of grain, so named from the pestle (pi/um) used by bakers.

  • One smote the threshold with an axe, another with a pestle, the third swept it with a broom - three symbols of culture (for trees were hewn down with the axe, grain pounded with the pestle, and the fruits of the field swept up with the broom) which Silvanus could not endure.

  • From the root of the kalo is made the national dish called poi; after having been baked and well beaten on a board with a stone pestle it is made into a paste with water and then allowed to ferment for a few days, when it is ready to be eaten.

  • In the mills of the Californian type the stamp is a cylindrical iron pestle faced with a chilled cast iron shoe, removable so that it can be renewed when necessary, attached to a round iron rod or lifter, the whole weighing from 600 to 900 lb; stamps weighing 1320 lb are in use in the Transvaal.

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