Only one pestle was dressed into any of the forms which we are accustomed to associate with the name, and this was a truncated cone with rounded top, shown at b in plate 29.
On the wall, placed there in adding to its height, were a broken taro pestle and a very dense siliceous rock, of high specific gravity, and filled with olivines.
The Ifugao version of the story states that the sky was so low that it interfered with the plying of the spear, while the Manóbo story relates that the rice pestle would strike against it.
It is said that in the early days of creation the sky was low, but that one day a woman, while pounding rice, hit it with her pestle and it ascended to its present position.
Then the upper wood is taken off, and the pestle washed in the same water with a pencil.
The rest of the order--carried out simultaneously--had to do with laying the pestle lightly on the bathroom table and thrusting the hand that had been wielding it deep into the right-hand pocket of my old shooting jacket.
By standing on edge a fragment of one of the big bivalves I was experimenting with, I discovered that a sharp blow with the side of my pestle caused the thinnest of chips to fly from its enamel-like lining.
Den dey hollow it out in de middle en take pestle dat have block on both it end en beat rice in dat mortar.
Just as the pestle comes round, he places the pieces of cane sloping down into the cavity of the mortar; and after the pestle has passed, he removes those that have been squeezed.
The machine called south stamps, the strongest of the three, gives 17-1/2 blows in the minute, each pestle being lifted twice for every stroke of the piston.
The shank of the pestle is strengthened with iron hoops.
It is suspended from the upper end of the pestle by a bamboo g, which has been cut with part of the root, in which is formed a pivot that hangs on the upper point of the pestle.
Mr. Boolpin directed his pestletoward a trap door in a corner of the ceiling, through which a quantity of rain had come a night or two previous, leaving a large wet patch on the floor.
As the three drew near the door, Mr. Boolpin, strongly smelling of aloes, and carrying a pestle in his hand, came out to greet them.
Lord and of Yogins; and as the ajñâna consisting in a pestle (the blow of which destroys the pot).
The womens Housewifry is to beat the Rice out of the husk; which they do with an Ebeny Pestle before mentioned.
They lay the Rice on the ground, and then beat it, one blow with one hand, and then tossing the Pestle into the other, to strike with that.
The women pound it into meal or flour with a pestle nearly five feet long, the ordinary mortar containing about two gallons.
Here was also the large pestle and mortar, the use of which will be presently described.
The bottom of thepestle was frequently covered with iron in which grooves were cut.
As the cylinder revolves, a cleat on it catches a cleat on the pestle and lifts the pestle a short distance and then lets it fall.
As the man pounded he found that when he gave the pestle a twirling or rotary motion as it fell it ground the grain much faster.
The mortar and pestle were followed by the slab-mill (Fig.
As we have seen, the primitive miller gradually learned that the pestle did better work when it fell with a twirling motion.
At a very early date the "knocking-stane" was laid aside for the mortar and pestle (Fig.
Here the pestle instead of being raised by a human hand is raised by the force of steam.
Nelatha raised her eyebrows significantly, and finally turned away with a satisfied nod, to return to her perpetual labor of grinding herb into powder with pestle and mortar.
The plenteous flesh of her upper arms rippled to an odd meter as she worked, grinding successful handfuls of spices and herbs in the stone pestle and mortise, to be portioned out into equal shares for each lot of balm.
This is performed, on the large scale, in a mill, and on the small scale, with a kind of pestle and mortar.
On the small scale, pulverisation is usually performed by means of a pestleand mortar; on the large scale, by stamping, grinding or cutting the substance in a mill.
Apparently the grain was also frequently crushed by pounding it with a pestle in a mortar.
The first consists of a block of wood with an excavation burned at one end and scraped out with an iron tool, wide at top and narrow at the bottom that the action of the pestle may operate to the best advantage.
Yes, mam, de pestle been big at one end an little at de other end.
Oh, dey had one of dese pestle en mortar to beat it out.
I have seen many a good prospect broken with the head of a pick and panned in a shovel, but for reef prospecting you should have a pestle and mortar.
Most practical men, however, prefer to continue the use of the stamper battery, which is virtually a pestleand mortar on a large scale.
A dolly is a one man power single stamp battery, or rather an extra sized pestle and mortar (see “Rules of Thumb,” p.
This flux should, however, be crushed with a pestle and mortar and panned off, as, in certain cases, it may contain tiny globules of gold.
The handiest for travelling is a mortar made from a mercury bottle cut in half, and a not too heavy wrought iron pestle with a hardened face.
My mortar was a jam tin, without top or bottom, placed on an anvil; the pestle a short steel drill.
The hobby-horse and the pestle and mortar were in great requisition during the time I remained in the house of Marheyo, and Kory-Kory had frequent occasion to show his skill in their use.
As soon as it is taken from the fire the exterior is removed, the core extracted, and the remaining part is placed in a sort of shallow stone mortar, and briskly worked with a pestle of the same substance.
The boy had parts, and could pound a pestle and run an errand with any boy in the town-and what more was wanted in a student?
No sooner was the doctor out of sight, than pestle and mortar were abandoned; the laboratory was left to take care of itself, and the student was off on some madcap frolic.
In the centre stood a claw-footed table, with pestle and mortar, phials and gallipots, and a pair of small, burnished scales.
The common way to pound rice is to place a bundle of the grain on the ground on a dried carabao hide and pound it with a pestle to loosen the heads from the straw.
For some time she pounded the rice, and then she raised the pestle so high that it struck the sky very hard.
Then she began working, and each time that she raised her pestle into the air it struck the sky.
When they are free they are poured into a mortar and again pounded with the pestle until the grain is separated from the chaff, after which it is winnowed.
This was something more in my way than sitting behind a pestle and mortar.
In the end he was converted and evidently satisfied, for he foraged around and gave me an old pestle after I had paid the money.
I have another of an exactly similar character, but 12 inches in diameter, while it has no groove, and an old Waterford glass pestle is with it.
After acquiring this I ascertained that the difference between alabaster and marble is that the former is of a softer nature, which accounts for the head of the old pestle being worn to 1½ in.
So they were alarmed at the words of the saint and tried to destroy the pestleby rubbing it on a stone.
But as the sawdust of the pestle fell on the ground there sprang up from it the shoots of the Gondla or Elephant grass, which grows taller than the head of a man on horseback.
On the return of the party they found to their astonishment that a pestle had actually, as it were, been born from the man.
Then Lingo was filled with wrath and leapt up, and seeing a rice-pestle near he seized it and beat them all with it soundly.
Then the host stands in the doorway with a pestle and as the guest comes he bars his entrance, saying: 'Are you one of my ancestors; this feast is for my ancestors?
Durvasa, who was of a very irascible temper, divined that he was being trifled with, and replied that a rice-pestle would be born by which the Yadavas would be destroyed.
When the bridegroom leaves the house to set out for the wedding his mother or aunt waves a pestle and churning-stick round him, puts a piece of betel-vine in his mouth and gives him her breast to suck.
The pestle and churning-stick and egg may perhaps be emblems of fertility.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pestle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
