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pestle

English

  1. 🔊 a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
  2. 🔊 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
  3. 🔊 machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
  4. 🔊 grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar
    “pestle the garlic”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 majadero pestle
  2. 🔊 pisador pestle, plunger
  3. 🔊 presionadora pestle, plunger

Similar words

muller pounder stamp abrade atomize beat bray brecciate cheese grater comminute comminutor contriturate crumb crumble crush crusher disintegrate flour fragment grain granulate granulator granulize grate