pestle

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Noun — A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.

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Etymology

From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.