Pestle: alternatives and connections

To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

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To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the…

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To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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A mesh.

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An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

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One who, or that which, mulls.

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One who, or that which, mulls.

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To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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The act of battering or beating.

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One who, or that which, mulls.

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One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.

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To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.