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单词 pestle and mortar
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pestle and mortar
a. A club-shaped instrument with a round end, used to crush or pound substances (such as herbs, spices, and drugs) in a mortar. Frequently in pestle and mortar.A pestle and mortar was formerly used esp. by apothecaries in preparing drugs, and was hence taken as the symbol of the apothecary's (and later the pharmacist's) profession.
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c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 16* Morter pil et mundiloun, Morter pestelle and pootstikke.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xvi. 14 It [sc. manna] appeerd in wyldernes lessid, & as with a pestell [L. pilo] pownyd, into þe licknes of a hoorfrost apon þe erþ.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 347 Make clene þe morter; & þan leie þeron camphore..þan do þerto oile, & grinde hem wel togidere wiþ þe pestel.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 395 Pestel, of stampynge, pila, pistillus, pistellus.
?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 14 (MED) Stampe hym in a mortare with a pistel of yren.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cvii. 95 Beate them small in a woodden morter, or marble with a pestill of wood.
1638 Inventory Viscountess Dorchester in Notes & Queries (1953) Sept. 381 1 stone morter and pestle of marble.
1688 S. Sewall Let.-Bk. (1886) I. 90 Send so much Lignum Vitae as may make two or three very fair Mortars and pestills.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 52. 3 The renowned British Hippocrates of the Pestle and Mortar.
1789 Suffolk Inventory in Notes & Queries (1947) 18 Oct. 448/2 Brass cob irons, ditto pestle and morter and dredging box.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 217 Each pestle's displayer, Who, living by drugs, proves humanity's slayer.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) vi. 78 His medical science..could not gain him the management of a pestle and mortar.
1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 79 0.05 gram of the explosive should be rubbed in a small unglazed mortar with an unglazed porcelain pestle.
1969 B. Head When Rain Clouds Gather ix. 139 All over the village the sound could be heard of wooden pestles being pounded into wooden stamping blocks.
1991 D. Coupland Generation X ii. xiii. 74 From the bottle I extract five..tranquilizer tablets..then return to Claire's, where I grind them up with her spice pestle.
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