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pestle

mortar and pestle (© School Division, Houghton Mifflin Company)

(pĕs'əl, pĕs'təl)
n.

1. A club-shaped, hand-held tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
2. A large bar moved vertically to stamp or pound, as in a press or mill.

v., -tled, -tling, -tles.

v.tr.
To pound, grind, or mash with or as if with a pestle.

v.intr.
To use a pestle.

[Middle English pestel, from Old French, from Latin pistillum.]

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A club-shaped tool used for crushing or pounding material in a mortar.

An instrument with a rounded end, used in a mortar to reduce a solid to a powder or produce a homogeneous mixture of solids.

For a list of words related to pestle, see:

• Tools, Tests, Units, and Scales - pestle: club-shaped hand tool used with mortar for crushing and grinding solids
• Hammers - pestle: club-shaped device made of hard substance, used for grinding and pulverizing material in mortar
• Descriptions of Sounds
• Violent Actions - pestle: grind or pulverize

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See words rhyming with "pestle."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - støder
v. tr. - støde
v. intr. - bruge en støder

Nederlands (Dutch)
stamper, fijnstampen (in vijzel)

Français (French)
n. - pilon
v. tr. - piler/broyer au pilon
v. intr. - travailler au pilon

Deutsch (German)
n. - Stößel
v. - zerstoßen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γουδοχέρι, κόπανος
v. - (ψιλο)κοπανίζω (σε γουδί)

Italiano (Italian)
pestello

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pilão (m)
v. - pilar, moer

Русский (Russian)
пестик, толочь

Español (Spanish)
n. - mano de mortero
v. tr. - majar, machacar, pistar, moler
v. intr. - majar, machacar, pisar, moler

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mortelstöt, stamp
v. - stöta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
乳钵, 杵, 槌, 捣, 研碎

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 乳缽, 杵, 槌
v. tr. - 搗, 研碎
v. intr. - 搗, 研碎

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 유봉, 절굿공이
v. tr. - 유봉[공이]으로 찧다
v. intr. - 짓이기다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 乳棒, すりこぎ
v. - 乳棒でつぶす

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مدقه, يد الهاون (فعل) يسحق, يهرس, , يدق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עלי‬
v. tr. - ‮כתש בעלי‬
v. intr. - ‮השתמש בעלי‬

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