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Hand Tool For Grinding Spices In A Mortar

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noun

• 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 substances in a mortar

verb

• grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

45%7Grinding spices in a mortar
verb

• To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.

37%8 Calligrapher's grinding mortar
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