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Word: pestle

Definition: tool for mashing or grinding substances in a hard bowl or mortar


Sentences Containing 'pestle'

And how all things particular in respect of these are for their substance, as one of the least seeds that is: and for their duration, as the turning of the pestle in the mortar once about.

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