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Definition of pestle in English: pestlenoun ˈpɛs(ə)l 1A heavy tool with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding substances such as spices or drugs, typically in a mortar. Example sentencesExamples - In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate.
- With a mortar and pestle, crush the thyme, garlic, and peppercorns and place in a large saucepan.
- In a mortar and pestle we ground up mint leaves from the garden with brown sugar.
- To make the anchovy butter, place the anchovy fillets, the teaspoon of butter and the Parmesan in a mortar and pestle and reduce it to a paste.
- And I used cardamom seeds that I crushed in my pestle and mortar, rather than ready-ground.
- 1.1 A mechanical device for grinding, pounding, or stamping something.
Example sentencesExamples - The homogenate was further macerated with quartz sand (at a ratio of quartz sand to denaturing solution of 16.7-33.3 mg ml - 1) in a mortar with a pestle in a draft chamber.
- The dolomite powder was milled in a mechanical mortar and pestle for several hours, resulting in an average grain size of about 2 ìm.
verb ˈpɛs(ə)l [with object]Crush or grind with a pestle. she measured seeds into the mortar and pestled them to powder Example sentencesExamples - So then I fried the bacon until impossibly crisp, crumbled some on my salad, placed the rest in a mortar and proceeded to pestle the remainder.
- When well done, sticky rice is placed in mortar to pestle.
Synonyms crush, pound, pulverize, mill, powder, granulate, grate, mince, shred, crumble, mash, smash, press, fragment, kibble
Origin Middle English: from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pist- 'pounded', from the verb pinsere. piston from early 18th century: The Latin pistullum meant pestle (Middle English) and is the source of the botanical pistil (early 18th century) from its similar shape. From the same source Italian formed pestone for a large pestle or rammer, and this, via French, is the source of piston.
Rhymes Bessel, nestle, redressal, trestle, vessel, wrestle Definition of pestle in US English: pestlenoun 1A heavy tool with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding substances such as spices or drugs, typically in a mortar. Example sentencesExamples - In a mortar and pestle we ground up mint leaves from the garden with brown sugar.
- To make the anchovy butter, place the anchovy fillets, the teaspoon of butter and the Parmesan in a mortar and pestle and reduce it to a paste.
- And I used cardamom seeds that I crushed in my pestle and mortar, rather than ready-ground.
- In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate.
- With a mortar and pestle, crush the thyme, garlic, and peppercorns and place in a large saucepan.
- 1.1 A mechanical device for grinding, pounding, or stamping something.
Example sentencesExamples - The dolomite powder was milled in a mechanical mortar and pestle for several hours, resulting in an average grain size of about 2 ìm.
- The homogenate was further macerated with quartz sand (at a ratio of quartz sand to denaturing solution of 16.7-33.3 mg ml - 1) in a mortar with a pestle in a draft chamber.
verb [with object]Crush or grind (a substance such as a spice or drug) with a pestle. she measured seeds into the mortar and pestled them to powder Example sentencesExamples - So then I fried the bacon until impossibly crisp, crumbled some on my salad, placed the rest in a mortar and proceeded to pestle the remainder.
- When well done, sticky rice is placed in mortar to pestle.
Synonyms crush, pound, pulverize, mill, powder, granulate, grate, mince, shred, crumble, mash, smash, press, fragment, kibble
Origin Middle English: from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pist- ‘pounded’, from the verb pinsere. |