noun
- plural of pestle; heavy tools with rounded ends used for crushing and grinding substances in a mortar
Examples
- The pharmacy kept several marble pestles for preparing medications.
- She used one of the wooden pestles to grind the spices.
- The laboratory had ceramic pestles for crushing samples.
- Ancient pestles were often made from stone.
- The chef collected pestles of different sizes for various tasks.
- These brass pestles work well with the granite mortars.