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- pestle 1 (with mortar)
1
: a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration
2
: any of various devices for pounding, stamping, or pressing
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Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
Hana starts taking home a rib cage here, a few bones there, grinding them up with a mortar and pestle to make her own DIY version of the gray.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
My job was to use the mortar and pestle to pound down garlic and ginger.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
Remove from the heat and allow to cool completely before transferring to a spice grinder or mortar and pestle.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
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Noun
What started as a labor of love for her athletes — and a 150-year-old stone mortar and pestle inherited from her great grandmother — has turned into an award-winning bean-to-bar operation.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
Hana starts taking home a rib cage here, a few bones there, grinding them up with a mortar and pestle to make her own DIY version of the gray.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
My job was to use the mortar and pestle to pound down garlic and ginger.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
Remove from the heat and allow to cool completely before transferring to a spice grinder or mortar and pestle.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pestle
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“Pestle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pestle. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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