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# pestle

«pestle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A heavy stick with a rounded end, used for crushing and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural pestles)

### meaning for a pupil

A heavy stick with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding things in a mortar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a witch rides in a mortar and uses a pestle to steer or to beat people

### examples

- Grind the herbs with the pestle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestle/#x1)
- The witch pushed her mortar along with the pestle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestle/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths; counting pestles is only counting objects.

### In the corpora

- [Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.799/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pestle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.