pilão — meaning in English

English meaning

• mortar noun A paste of sand, water and cement or lime used to bond bricks or stones together.
• pestle noun A short tool with a rounded end, used with a bowl to crush or grind substances.

Senses

pilão is used for these senses in English:

• mortar (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
• mortar and pestle A device made up of a bowl (the mortar) and a heavy, blunt object (the pestle), the end of which is used for crushing and grinding ingredients or substances into a fine paste or powder.
• pestle A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.

mortar — full definition

1. noun A paste of sand, water and cement or lime used to bond bricks or stones together.
2. noun A small bowl used with a pestle to crush or grind ingredients.
3. noun A short-barreled weapon that fires shells high into the air to hit targets at a steep angle.
4. verb To attack a target by firing mortar shells at it.

pestle — full definition

1. noun A short tool with a rounded end, used with a bowl to crush or grind substances.
2. noun A staff carried by an official such as a constable, named for its shape.
3. noun A cut of meat consisting of an animal's leg and its bone, especially from a pig.

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