Meaning of 'pestle' in Yoruba is: pestle

pestle: pestle

Noun:

amọ, wẹwẹ, Boluda, ijiya, gbamabinu, osise, ọgọ, ọlọ, eerun.

Verb:

lulú, pọn, iyẹfun.

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Noun(1) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores,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,a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substancesin a mortar(2) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores(3) 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(4) a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substancesin a mortar
Verb(1) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar(2) grind or pulverize in a pestle

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(1) The dolomite powder was milled in a mechanical mortar and pestle for several hours, resulting in an average grain size of about 2 u00d4u00f6u00a3u252cu255dm.(2) To make the anchovy butter, place the anchovy fillets, the teaspoon of butter and the Parmesan in a mortar and pestle and reduce it to a paste.(3) The homogenate was further macerated with quartz sand (at a ratio of quartz sand to denaturing solution of 16.7-33.3 mg ml - 1) in a mortar with a pestle in a draft chamber.(4) With a mortar and pestle , crush the thyme, garlic, and peppercorns and place in a large saucepan.(5) In a mortar and pestle we ground up mint leaves from the garden with brown sugar.(6) And I used cardamom seeds that I crushed in my pestle and mortar, rather than ready-ground.(7) So then I fried the bacon until impossibly crisp, crumbled some on my salad, placed the rest in a mortar and proceeded to pestle the remainder.(8) When well done, sticky rice is placed in mortar to pestle .(9) In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate.