Sentence example with the word 'metate'

metate

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The maize was ground with a stone roller on the grinding stone or metlatl, still known over Spanish America as the metate, and the meal baked into thin oval cakes called by Aztecs tlaxcalli, and by Spaniards tortilla, which resemble the chapati of India and the oatcake of Scotland.   [Please select]

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Rubbing stones used with a coarse metate for shucking and cracking corn.   [Please select]

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105, and differ from those that were used with the early massive type of metate in being of cylindrical form.   [Please select]

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His wife may be seen moving about the rancho, or upon her knees before the metate kneading tortillas, and besmearing them with _chile Colorado_ (red capsicum).   [Please select]

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The first of the latter shows the use of a discarded metate, or mealing stone, and the second of a gourd that has been walled into the coping.   [Please select]

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