2. Verb. (third-person singular of pestle) ¹
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Definition of Pestles
1. pestle [v] - See also: pestle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestles
Literary usage of Pestles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"It is 1'urai-he.l round its circumference with wipers for lifting the pestles,
so that each .nay fall twice during one turn of the water-wheel: that is, ..."
2. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"460 is the elevation of the pestle and press-frame, their furniture, the mortars,
and the press-pestles. 2, cross-pieces between the two rails of the frame, ..."
3. Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America by John Wells Foster (1874)
"pestles.— To grind maize so as to fit it for cooking, undoubtedly entered largely
into the domestic economy of every Mound-builder's family. ..."
4. The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of by Gates Phillips Thruston (1897)
"STONE pestles. the process of pounding or churning, after the custom adopted ...
General Wilder has one of these large, round pestles, about two inches in ..."
5. General Notions of Chemistry by Théophile Jules Pelouze, Edmond Fremy (1854)
"The Process ly pestles. — This mode of trituration is effected by means of ...
These pestles are made of pieces of beech-wood, of the weight of about 20 ..."
6. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"At that very place they built a pen (for his two-day funeral), and instead of
pen- posts his two elder sisters brought two pestles and stood at both sides ..."
7. Chemical Handicraft: A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical by John Joseph Griffin (1877)
"The pestles of Nos. and are rather troublesome to work, in consequence of there
being no airway between the pestles and the mortars. ..."
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