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 →

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 →
• The witch pushed her mortar along with the pestle. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pestle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.