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pestle
 
Noun pestle has 3 senses
  1. stamp, pestle - machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
    --1 is a kind of machine
    --1 is a part of battery, stamp battery
    Derived form: verb pestle1
  2. pestle, muller, pounder - 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
    --2 is a kind of tool
    Derived form: verb pestle1
  3. pestle - a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
    --3 is a kind of     hand tool
    Derived form: verb pestle1
Verb pestle has 1 sense
  1. pestle - grind or pulverize in a pestle
    --1 is one way to     grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
    Derived forms: noun pestle1, noun pestle2, noun pestle3
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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