|
|
Definition of Pestle
1. Verb. Grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar. "Pestle the garlic"
2. Noun. Machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores.
Group relationships: Battery, Stamp Battery
Generic synonyms: Machine
Derivative terms: Stamp
3. Noun. A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone.
4. Noun. A club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar.
Definition of Pestle
1. n. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
2. v. t. & i. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
Definition of Pestle
1. Noun. A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things. ¹
2. Verb. To pound, crush, rub or grind (things), as in a mortar with a pestle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pestle
1. to crush with a club-shaped hand tool [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Medical Definition of Pestle
1. An instrument in the shape of a rod with one rounded and weighted extremity, used for bruising, breaking, grinding, and mixing substances in a mortar. Origin: L. Pistillum, fr. Pinso, or piso, to pound (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestle
Literary usage of Pestle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1910)
"pestle made of Stone 33. pestle made of Stone 34. pestle made of Stone 35.
pestle made of Steatite 36. pestle or Roller made of Stone 37. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The material was Besides the old-fashioned use instead of corn- mills, they were
retained for all purposes for which the mortar and pestle are now employed ..."
3. Jewelry Making and Design: An Illustrated Text Book for Teachers, Students by Augustus Foster Rose, Antonio Cirino (1917)
"After being broken, it is then placed in a porcelain mortar and, with water enough
to cover it, it is ground about as fine as fine sand, with the pestle. ..."
4. Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society: June 1925, Volume Xxvi, Number 2 by Oregon Historical Society (1901)
"pestle—With animal head. Found on Mosier Creek, near Columbia River. 157. ...
pestle—Found at Hood River. pestle—Found at Hood River. pestle—Found at The ..."
5. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1895)
""The Knight of the Burning pestle" was a lively burlesque on the taste for
high-flown romances, which Cervantes had attacked five or six years before in his ..."
6. The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of by Gates Phillips Thruston (1897)
"A well-shaped disc, apparently of the ordinary Tennessee pattern, from New Mexico,
with " a paint-pestle " in it, is illustrated in the Fourth Annual Report ..."
7. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"The design of The Knight of the Burning pestle is singularly ingenious. A play
of the ordinary middle- class romantic kind is on the point of being ..."
Other Resources:
