pestle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.
The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.

verb

/ˈpɛsəl/ En-ca-pestle.oga

pestle pestles pestling pestled

From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.

pesto pistil

knight of the pestle micropestle mortar and pestle pestle and mortar

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