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noun
1.
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
2.
any of various appliances for pounding, stamping, etc.
verb (used with object)
3.
to pound or grind with or as if with a pestle.
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verb (used without object)
4.
to work with a pestle.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English pestel < Middle French < Latin pistillum, derivative of pistus, past participle of pīnsere to pound, crush
1300–50; Middle English pestel < Middle French < Latin pistillum, derivative of pistus, past participle of pīnsere to pound, crush
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Word Origin & History
pestle
1272, from O.Fr. pestel, from L. pistillum "pounder, pestle," related to pinsere "to pound," from PIE *pis-to-, suffixed form of base *peis- "to crush" (cf. Skt. pinasti "pounds, crushes," pistah "anything ground, meal," Gk. ptissein "to winnow," O.C.S. piso, pichati "to push, thrust, strike," pisenica
EXPAND"wheat," Rus. pseno "millet").
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Medical Dictionary
pestle pes·tle (pěs'əl, pěs'təl)
n.
A club-shaped, hand-held tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
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pestle
ancient device for milling by pounding. Together with the saddle quern (a round stone rolled or rubbed on a flat stone bed), it was the first means known for grinding grain; the grain was placed in a shallow depression in a stone, the mortar, and pounded with a rodlike stone, the pestle. Refined versions of the mortar and pestle have continued to find use in kitchens for preparing pastes and other finely ground elements of cuisine, in pharmacy for preparing medicines, and in chemical laboratories.
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