Definitions | pestle |
| noun
- A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
verb (pestl, es)
- To pound, crush, rub or grind (things), as in a mortar with a pestle.
Etymology: Via Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pinsere, "to pound".
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