Synonyms of the word pestle


PESTLEBRAY - COMMINUTE - CRUNCH - GRIND - MACHINE - MASH - MULLER - POUNDER - STAMP - TOOL

pestle

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

bray

  • v. (intransitive) Of a donkey, to make its cry.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a camel, to make its cry.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
  • v. (transitive) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
  • n. The cry of an ass or donkey.
  • n. The cry of a camel.
  • n. Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
  • v. (now rare) To crush or pound, especially in a mortar.
  • v. (Britain, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.

comminute

  • v. To pulverize; to smash.
  • v. (medicine) To cause fragmentation (of bone).
  • v. To break into smaller portions.
  • n. Pulverized material.

crunch

  • v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
  • v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
  • v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
  • v. To grind or press with violence and noise.
  • v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by…
  • n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
  • n. A critical moment or event.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains…

grind

  • v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
  • v. To shape with the force of friction.
  • v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
  • v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
  • v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
  • v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
  • v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
  • v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
  • v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
  • v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
  • v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
  • v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
  • v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
  • v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
  • n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
  • n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
  • n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
  • n. A tedious task.
  • n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
  • n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
  • n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
  • n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

machine

  • n. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a…
  • n. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
  • n. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
  • n. (computing) A computer.
  • n. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient,…
  • n. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting…
  • n. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
  • n. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially…
  • n. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
  • v. to make by machinery.
  • v. to shape or finish by machinery.

mash

  • n. (obsolete) A mesh.
  • n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
  • n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
  • n. Mashed potatoes.
  • n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
  • n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
  • v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
  • v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
  • v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
  • v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
  • v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
  • n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
  • n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
  • n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

muller

  • n. One who, or that which, mulls.
  • n. (art) A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders.
  • n. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
  • v. To grind up into, or as if into, powder.
  • n. (metallurgy) A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.
  • v. (Britain) To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).

pounder

  • n. A vessel in which something is pounded, or something used in pounding.
  • n. (only in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot.
  • n. (only in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds.

stamp

  • n. An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
  • n. An indentation or imprint made by stamping.
  • n. A device for stamping designs.
  • n. A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters…
  • n. A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other costs such as…
  • n. (slang, figuratively) A tattoo.
  • n. (slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
  • v. (intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive) To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot…
  • v. (transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
  • v. (transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
  • v. (transitive) To apply postage stamps to.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To mark; to impress.

tool

  • n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
  • n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
  • n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
  • n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
  • n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
  • n. (slang) Penis.
  • n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
  • v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
  • v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
  • v. (transitive) To work very hard.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

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