Pestle

Definition: Pestle

Pestle

Noun

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

2. 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.

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

Verb

1. Grind or pulverize in a pestle.

Date "pestle" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Domain	Definition
Industry	A tool with a rounded end used to crush any desired substance in a mortar. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pestle

Synonyms: muller (n), pounder (n), stamp (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pulverulence	Mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pestle

English words defined with "pestle": mortar ♦ Pestilation, Pestled, Pestling, pound. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pestle": Breton pan ♦ DENTAL-AMALGAM PROCESSOR ♦ enamel cracker, enamel pulverizer ♦ granulator, GRANULATOR-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Knights of the Pestle ♦ Pharisees ♦ special-machine operator ♦ wet-mix operator. (references)

Etymologies containing "pestle": Piston. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true (The Court Jester; writing credit: Melvin Frank and Norman Panama.)

The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true (The Court Jester; writing credit: Melvin Frank and Norman Panama.)

The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true (The Court Jester; writing credit: Melvin Frank and Norman Panama.)

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Domain	Title
Books	Pestle and Mortar: An Approach to Feminine Spirituality (reference) The Knight of the Burning Pestle (New Mermaid Ser) (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	Orange-X 5.5-Inch Mortar & Pestle, Blue (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Hardware fragments. Measured drawing delineated by Frederic Lansing, 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS NJ-16, sheet 27 of 27) The wrought-iron hardware depicted in this HABS drawing comes from a Dutch Colonial house built sometime between 1677 and 1720 by David des Marest, a French Huguenot and immigrant to the American Colonies from the Netherlands. The hinges may have been part of the original building or may have been added later as part of an improvement project during the colonial period. The stone pestle for grinding and the wrought-iron fire tongs and horse's bit were also found around the house. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Pestle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pestle" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	26	68,323

Expression using "pestle": mortar and pestle. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "pestle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thërrmoj (comminute, crumb, crumble, crush, fritter, mince), shtypës havani, shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize). (various references)

Arabic		‏يد الهاون, ‏مدقة (beetle, hammer, maul), ‏إستعمل يد الهاون. (various references)

Bulgarian		счуквам с чукало, чукало (knocker, pounder, rapper). (various references)

Chinese		杵 (to poke). (various references)

Czech		palièka (gavel, pounder), tlouci (batter, hit, knock, palpitate, throb, thump), třít palièkou. (various references)

Danish		stoeder. (various references)

Dutch		stamper (beater, pistil, plunger, pounder, pounding, punner, rammer, stamper, tamper), vijzelstamper. (various references)

Esperanto		pistilo. (various references)

Farsi		پودرساختن , خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Mince, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), ران خوک (Hock), دسته هاون . (various references)

Finnish		survin (plunger, punner, rammer, stamper, tamper). (various references)

French		pilon. (various references)

German		Stößel (pestles, tappet), Pistill (pounder). (various references)

Greek		γουδοχέρι, τρίβω με γουδοχέρι. (various references)

Hebrew		מ�"וך (rammer), בוכ� �" (cylinder, piston). (various references)

Hungarian		mozsártörő (muller). (various references)

Indonesian		pengentak (pounder). (various references)

Italian		pestello (Muller), pestare (beat, grind, pound, prepay, put, put on stamps, trample on, work over), pastello (crayon, pastel), frantumare (break up, crumble, crush, grind, rag, rupture, shatter, shiver, slab, smash, stamp, to shatter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		杵 (mallet, pounder), 乳�' . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きね (mallet, pounder), にゅうぼう (breast, nipple, udder). (various references)

Korean		방앗공이. (various references)

Manx		pestyl, pestley. (various references)

Pig Latin		estlepay.(various references)

Portuguese		pilão (beater, bruising mail, mortar, ponder, pounder, tup). (various references)

Romanian		pistil (pistil), pisãlog (bore, bothersome, faggot, pesky, pestiferous), pisa (bother, Bray, contuse, grind, pound, pulp), fãrâmiţa (crumble, granulate, mince). (various references)

Russian		пестик (pistil, ponder, pounder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tucati (crush, mash), tučak (pistil). (various references)

Spanish		mano de mortero. (various references)

Swedish		mortelstöt (pounder). (various references)

Turkish		havaneli, havanda dövmek (pound), havan tokmağı. (various references)

Turkmen		soky. (various references)

Ukrainian		товкти в ступі, товкач (dasher, pounder). (various references)

Vietnamese		cái ch� y (pounder). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pila, pili, pilis, pilo, piloque, pilorum, pistillum. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	piston. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 22
Latin	405	Vulgate	Si contuderis stultum in pila quasi tisanas feriente desuper pilo non auferetur ab eo stultitia eius
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	If thou bete togidere a fool in a morter, as hoolid barli smytende there vp on the pestel; shal not ben take awei fro hym his folie.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 22
Cebuano	¶ Bisan pa ikaw magadugmok sa usa ka buang sa usa ka lusong pinaagi sa usa ka alho lakip sa linubok nga trigo, Apan ang iyang binuang dili gayud mobiya gikan kaniya.
Chinese	� 雖 �"� 杵、將愚妄人與 �" 碎的麥子一同搗在臼中、他的愚妄還是離不了他。
Croatian	Da bezumnika stuèeš tuèkom u stupi, ne bi ga ostavila ludost njegova.
Danish	Om du knuste en Dåre i Morter med Støder midt imellem Gryn, hans Dårskab veg dog ej fra ham.
Dutch	Al stiet gij den dwaas in een mortier met een stamper, in het midden van het gestoten graan, zijn dwaasheid zou van hem niet afwijken.
Finnish	Survo hullua huhmaressa, petkelellä surveitten seassa: ei erkane hänestä hänen hulluutensa.
French	Quand tu pilerais l`insensé dans un mortier, Au milieu des grains avec le pilon, Sa folie ne se séparerait pas de lui.
German	Wenn du den Narren im Mörser zerstießest mit dem Stämpel wie Grütze, so ließe doch seine Narrheit nicht von ihm.
Hungarian	Ha megtörnéd is a bolondot mozsárban mozsártörõvel a megtört gabona között, nem távoznék el õ tõle az õ bolondsága.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Sekalipun orang bodoh dipukul sekeras-kerasnya, tak akan lenyap kebodohannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Jikalau kiranya orang bodoh ditumbuk dalam lesung bersama-sama dengan segala beras sekalipun, maka tiada juga bodohnya akan bercerai dari padanya.
Italian	Anche se tu pestassi lo stolto nel mortaio tra i grani con il pestello, non scuoteresti da lui la sua stoltezza.
Maori	¶ Ahakoa i tukua e koe te wairangi ki te tuki i roto i te kumete i waenga i nga witi pepe, e kore tona whakaarokore e riro.
Norwegian	Om du støter dåren i morteren med støteren midt iblandt grynene, så viker hans dårskap allikevel ikke fra ham.
Portuguese	Ainda que pisasses o insensato no gral entre grãos pilados, contudo não se apartaria dele a sua estultícia.
Rumanian	Pe nebun chiar dacq l-ai pisa cu pisqlogul kn piuq, kn mijlocul grqunyelor, nebunia tot n`ar iewi din el. -
Russian	фПМЛЙ ЗМХ� ПЗП Ч УФХ� Е � ЕУФПН ЧНЕУФЕ У ЪЕТОПН, ОЕ ПФ�"ЕМЙФУС ПФ ОЕЗП ЗМХ� ПУФШ ЕЗП.
Swedish	Om du stötte den oförnuftige mortel med en stöt, bland grynen, så skulle hans oförnuft ändå gå ur honom.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pestle": pestled, pestles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pestle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: passtle, pastle, peetle, pesale, pesate, Pesola, Pessell, Pessl, pestal, pestel, Pestell, Petley, pettle, pieste, Pistel, pistle, pistolier, pittle, postle, Pressel, prestile, Prestley, pussle, westlb. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: leets, peels, peles, pelts, sleep, sleet, slept, speel, spelt, steel, steep, stele, teels, teles.
	-2 letters: eels, else, lees, leet, lept, lest, lets, peel, pees, pele, pelt, pest, pets, seel, seep, sept, step, teel, tees, tele, tels.
	-3 letters: eel, els, lee, let, pee, pes, pet, see, sel, set, tee, tel.
	-4 letters: el, es, et, pe.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: epistle, pelites, pellets, pelmets, pelters, pestled, pestles, petrels, pettles, respelt, spelter, steeple, steeply, temples.
	+2 letters: capelets, depletes, eelpouts, epaulets, epistler, epistles, epistyle, estoppel, heelpost, heeltaps, outsleep, palettes, pedestal, peltries, penlites, perlites, pesthole, petioles, petrales, peytrels, pleaters, pledgets, plenties, poetless, prelates, prelects, pretzels, pulsejet, replates, reptiles, septuple, sextuple, spaetzle, spelters, speltzes, spikelet, steepled, steeples, steplike, tapeless, telphers, templets.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mortar and pestle	194	mortar pestle set	3
pestle	28	stone mortar and pestle	3
morter and pestle	9	motar and pestle	3
the knight of the burning pestle	9	pestle wooden	2
marble mortar pestle	7	mill mortar pestle	2
mortar and pestle granite	6	mortal pestle	2
mexican mortar pestle	6	mortar pestle picture	2
mortor and pestle	5	ceramic mortar and pestle	2
thai mortar pestle	5	blue mortar pestle	2
mini mortar pestle set	5	kitchen mortar pestle	2
mortar pestle pharmacy	4	indian mortar pestle	2
mortar pestle pharmacist	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pestle

Definition: Pestle

Pestle

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Pestle

Synonyms: Pestle

Synonyms within Context: Pestle

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Crosswords: Pestle

Modern Usage: Pestle

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