pestle

pestle is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
2. noun. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
3. noun. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
4. transitive/intransitive verb. To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
5. noun. a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
6. noun. a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

   Synonyms: muller, pounder

7. noun. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

   Synonyms: stamp

8. verb. grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

   "pestle the garlic"

Synonyms

muller, pounder, stamp

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pestle:

spleet

Common word forms

pestled, pestles, pestling

Words from these letters

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