pestle
8.5
A heavy bar in a machine that moves up and down to crush rocks
- noun
- /ˈpɛsəl/
- Specialized
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martillo
- To make the traditional sauce, she carefully moved the pestle up and down in the mortar, crushing the ingredients.
Examples
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She flew into the clearing, riding in a mortar and driving herself forward with its pestle.
Fiction book (1998) -
The chef used the pestle to grind the herbs into a fine paste in the mortar.
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When preparing the spices, he placed them in the mortar and began to use the pestle to break them down.
Synonyms
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2.5
A machine that crushes materials, for example coffee beans
uses vertical heavy bar motion to pound rather than grind or shape
mill
vspestle
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2.2
A machine that grinds materials like grain and coffee
pounds materials with a heavy vertical bar instead of grinding
3
8.6
A heavy machine that pounds or crushes rock at a mine
focuses on both ores and other materials rather than mainly ores
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Etymology
Pestle for a machine also traces back to Latin pistillum, 'pounder', and is related to the word piston, which moves up and down. That's why this kind of pestle is a large bar that pounds or crushes ore and other materials.