pestle Hear it!

pestle definition

pes·tle (pes′əl, -təl)

noun

  1. a tool, usually club-shaped, used to pound or grind substances in a mortar
  2. any of several tools for pounding, grinding, or stamping

Etymology: ME pestel < OFr < L pistillum < pinsere, to pound < IE base *pis-, to pound, crush > Gr ptissein, to stamp

transitive verb, intransitive verb pestled -·tled, pestling -·tling

to pound, grind, crush, etc. with or as with a pestle

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Comments
Improve this definition.
Do you have more to add? Share your linguistic knowledge or observation.
/Register to save your comments.