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PESTLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pestle" is a kind of...):

hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)

Derivation:

pestle (grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pestle" is a kind of...):

tool (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)

Derivation:

pestle (grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

Synonyms:

pestle; stamp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pestle" is a kind of...):

machine (any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks)

Holonyms ("pestle" is a part of...):

battery; stamp battery (a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores)

Derivation:

pestle (grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

Example:

pestle the garlic

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pestle" is one way to...):

bray; comminute; crunch; grind; mash (reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pestle (a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar)

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)

pestle (machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores)

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