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metate
[ muh-tah-tee; Spanish me-tah-te ]
noun
- a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of metate1
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Example Sentences
They also prepare a drink by parching corn and grinding it to powder on the metate, and mixing it with water and a little achote.
Their cooking-utensils consist of the metate, pots made of earthenware, and gourds.
On my way I stubbed my stockinged foot against a stone metate or mortar in which Indians and Mexicans make their flour.
Being an Indian she quite cheerfully went back to pounding acorns in a metate.
The animal he caught he throws toward her where she is kneeling before the metate, so that it falls on her skirt.
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