Visitors learn about Rwanda’s tea, considered among the best in the world for high-quality, single-origin, whole-leaf green and black brews, by picking the small leaves, pounding them with a mortar and pestle, and finally tasting the drink in the collective’s tea room.—Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, TIME, 25 July 2024 This petite pestle and mortar bowl is perfect for grinind up fresh herbs.—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 25 June 2024 Grinding: Once dried, use a mortar, pestle, or food processor to grind the bark into a fine powder.—Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024 From a morning visit to a local market to buy the freshest vegetables and herbs to pounding green curry paste in a mortar and pestle to making mango sticky rice, my foodie family couldn’t be happier.—Tanvi Chheda, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pestle
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English pestel, from Anglo-French, from Latin pistillum, from pinsere to pound, crush; akin to Greek ptissein to crush, Sanskrit pinaṣṭi he pounds
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