1. A club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
   "She used the pestle to crush the herbs in the mortar"
    
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
   "The pharmacist used a pestle to grind the ingredients for the medication";
   - muller, pounder
    
3. Machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
   "The pestle in the industrial grinder pulverized the minerals";
   - stamp

1. Grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar
   "pestle the garlic"

Derived forms: pestled, pestles, pestling

Type of: bray [archaic], comminute [rare], crunch, grind, hand tool, machine, mash, tool

Part of: battery, stamp battery

Encyclopedia: Pestle