Crossword-Solution: PESTLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pestle | n. | An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar. |
| Pestle | n. | A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. |
| Pestle | n. | The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork. |
| Pestle | v. t. & i. | To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PESTLE | anagram | PLETES |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
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greedy person
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Sentences with PESTLE (5)
Best wait: I reach Jerusalem at morn, There set in order my experiences, Gather what most deserves, and give thee all-- Or I might add, Judaea’s gum-tragacanth Scales off in purer flakes, shines clearer-grained, Cracks ‘twixt the pestle and the porphyry, In fine exceeds our produce.
Cut a mortar 1313 three feet wide and a pestle three cubits long, and an axle of seven feet, for it will do very well so; but if you make it eight feet long, you can cut a beetle 1314 from it as well.
Davis be arrested without delay, and Hannah shook her fist at the ‘villain’ and pounded potatoes for dinner as if she had him under her pestle.
Bob Sawyer ordered in the largest mortar in the shop, and proceeded to brew a reeking jorum of rum-punch therein, stirring up and amalgamating the materials with a pestle in a very creditable and apothecary-like manner.
Pestle, who always attended personally on the aristocracy, was a good deal surprised at the order, and in a very deferential manner murmured something about a medical certificate being necessary.
Quotes with PESTLE (3)
the phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin ---for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over and over? did we invent him, conjure himover the charring log, nights, late, in the snowbound cabindid we dream or scry his facein the liquid embers, the man-who-would-dare-to-know-us? It was never the rapist: it was the brother, lost, the comrade/twin whose palmwould bear a lifeline like our own: decisive, arrowy, forked-lightning of insatiate d…
Lou hoisted up her gown and winced as she tottered across the parking lot. The sparkly four-inch heels had looked so pretty in the box, but they felt like a mortar and pestle grinding each bone in her foot. She missed her green Crocs. Lou plucked at the tight elastic, squeezing her under the sleek black dress her fiancé, Devlin, had given her. He walked five steps ahead of her, so she scurried to catch up." Overstuffed truffle and foie gras sausage," Lou said. Devlin's face c…
Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 120 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).