pestle
noun/ˈpɛsəl/
Frequency rank: #19,175 most common English word
Meaning
a heavy club-shaped tool used for crushing or grinding substances in a mortar.
Example sentence
She used pestle to grind the spices into a fine powder in the mortar.
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