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pestle
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pestle /pes·tle/ (pes´'l) an implement for pounding drugs in a mortar.
pes·tle (psl, pstl)
n.
A club-shaped, hand-held tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
pestle [pes´'l]
an instrument with a rounded end, used in a mortar to reduce a solid to a powder or produce a homogeneous mixture of solids.
pestle
an instrument with a rounded end, used in a mortar to reduce a solid to a powder or produce a homogeneous mixture of solids.
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If I hadn't just had breakfast I'd be chopping those onions and pestling and mortaring a handful of unsuspecting cardamom seeds right now.
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