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pestles


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Preferred Term

pestles

Details

Club-shaped instruments of a hard material with a round end used for crushing, pounding, or grinding herbs, spices, drugs, pigments, or other materials in a mortar, which is a cup-shaped receptacle.

Variations

pestle

Broader Term

grinding and milling tools

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