Usually means: Tools for grinding or mashing.
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  1. pestles: Merriam-Webster
  2. pestles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pestles: Vocabulary.com
  4. pestles: Wordnik
  5. pestles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pestles: Wiktionary
  7. pestles: Dictionary.com
  8. pestles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pestles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pestles: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pestle)

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


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