What is "pestle" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does pestle mean in English? Meaning of pestle definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "pestle" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "pestle": machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

Noun

  • Meaning: machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
  • Synonyms: pestle stamp
  • Hypernyms: machine
  • Meaning of "pestle": grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

    Verb

  • Meaning: grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar
  • Example: pestle the garlic
  • Synonyms: pestle
  • Hypernyms: bray comminute crunch grind mash
  • Meaning of "pestle": a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

    Noun

  • Meaning: a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
  • Synonyms: muller pestle pounder
  • Hypernyms: tool
  • Meaning of "pestle": a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar

    Noun

  • Meaning: a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
  • Synonyms: pestle
  • Hypernyms: hand tool
  • Synonyms:

    grate, pulverize, reduce, scrape, crumble, pound, granulate, beat, disintegrate, bray, attenuate, shiver, powder, file, mill, rasp, atomize, crumple, abrade, triturate, kibble, comminute, chop up, levigate, roll out, pummel, wallop, bruise, pulse, belabor, powder, hammer, pulverize, pelt, tramp, thump, strike, hit, throb, stomp, buffet, batter, palpitate, pulsate, drub, clobber, thrash, triturate, comminute, malleate, grate, pulverize, pound, rasp, crunch, strew, bray, smash, reduce, cover, scrape, grind, dredge, abrade, file, dust, crumble, granulate, scatter, triturate, comminute, flour, shatter, crunch, pound, mull, buck, fragment, bray, splinter, fragmentize, grind, crush, beat, powder, granulate, grate, mill, crumble, atomize, abrade, break up, triturate, comminute, flour, contriturate, fragmentalize, levigate, micronize,

    Antonyms:

    liberate, build, free, fail, lose, give up, be still, solidify, build, surrender, construct, create, lose, build,

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    pestle in English: pestle
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