Pestle

Definitions

1. A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.
   archaic
3. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.

Equivalents

Examples

“She then sat down by the fire, and carefully separated the stone from the pulp, which she burnt; and her next task was to extract the kernel, which she did by means of a heavy pestle and the hearth. The kernels were next crushed together, and placed to simmer over the furnace.”

“[…]whether the chopping-knife or their pestles were the better weapons”

“a pestle of pork”

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