Pestle Definition

pĕsəl, pĕstəl
pestled, pestles, pestling
noun
pestles
A tool, usually club-shaped, used to pound or grind substances in a mortar.
Webster's New World
Any of several tools for pounding, grinding, or stamping.
Webster's New World
A large bar moved vertically to stamp or pound, as in a press or mill.
American Heritage

(archaic) A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.

Wiktionary

The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.

A pestle of pork.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
pestled, pestles
To pound, grind, crush, etc. with or as with a pestle.
Webster's New World
To use a pestle.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Pestle

Noun

Singular:
pestle
Plural:
pestles

Origin of Pestle

  • Via Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pÄ«nsō (“pound, beat"). Cognate to pesto.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English pestel from Old French from Latin pistillum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pestle Sentence Examples

  • Even the Calaveras man is no exception, since his skull and his polished conical pestle, the latter made of stone more recent than the auriferous gravels, show him to have been of Digger Indian type.

  • Picumnus, a rustic deity (like Picus) and husband of Pomona, is specially concerned with the manuring of the soil and hence called Sterquilinus, while Pilumnus is the inventor of the pounding of grain, so named from the pestle (pi/um) used by bakers.

  • Use a round hand motion with your pestle to "squeeze" the full aroma and flavor from the fresh herbs and garlic.

  • We found pestle and mortars for grinding spices and herbs, decorated stones and a beautiful bowl and stone for refining other natural herbs.

  • Grind the herbs together with a mortar and pestle or in a coffee grinder until they are a fine powder.

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