pestle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
    — 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.
  2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape. archaic
    — […]whether the chopping-knife or their pestles were the better weapons
  3. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.
    — a pestle of pork
动词 v.
  1. To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle. transitive
    — ‘Next time, boy, that you use that mortar for garlic, I will personally knock out your brain, place it in the said mortar, pestle it to a fine paste and give it to Dick Purser for feeding the dogs.’

词形变化

pestles plural pestles present,singular,third-person pestling participle,present pestled participle,past pestled past

词汇关系

衍生词
knight of the pestle micropestle mortar and pestle pestle and mortar
并列词
muddler

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.
词源 2
From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.
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