Definitionn. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
Last update: August 10, 2015
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He measured seeds into the mortar and pestled them to powder. [verb]
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A pestle is used to grind drugs in Ayurveda. [noun]
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He is also said to have written, at dates unknown, The London Merchant (which, however, was an earlier name for Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle) and The Royal Combat; a tragedy by him, Beauty in a Trance, was entered in the Stationers' Register in 1653, but never printed. [Please select]
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Mortar and pestle. [Please select]
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In a hole, shaped like a mortar, cut in the trunk of a fallen tree, they pounded corn with a wooden pestle, and of the meal made cake. [Please select]
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Then going down stairs, I met Lavement coming up trembling with the pestle in his hand, and Gawky behind armed with his sword, pushing him forward. [Please select]
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The Buprestis-grubs, those other industrious carpenters, adopt a similar form; they even exaggerate their pestle. [Please select]
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Ditto, handsomely finished in the form of a pestle. [Please select]
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Ditto, in spar in the form of a pestle. [Please select]
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