Noun: pestle
| Singular | pestle |
| Plural | pestles |
Sample Sentences
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She then sat down by the fire, and carefully separated the stone from the pulp, which she burnt; and her next task was to extract the kernel, which she did by means of a heavy pestle and the hearth. The kernels were next crushed together, and placed to simmer over the furnace. [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 327:]
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[…]whether the chopping-knife or their pestles were the better weapons [1611, George Chapman, May-Day:]
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a pestle of pork
Nouns inflected like pestle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum. See: Middle English Nouns '
pestel', Latin Nouns '
pistillum'.
Verbs referencing "pestle"
Portuguese Nouns
pistilo, Spanish Nouns
pistilo.