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  • verb Present participle of pestle.

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Examples

  • This book is inspirational enough that I wanted to set about the task of slowly drizzling a cup and a half of olive oil into a mortar while pestling four cloves of garlic, a pinch of sea salt, and the juice of a lemon wedge.

    Current Affairs 2007

  • This book is inspirational enough that I wanted to set about the task of slowly drizzling a cup and a half of olive oil into a mortar while pestling four cloves of garlic, a pinch of sea salt, and the juice of a lemon wedge.

    Augieland: 2006

  • This book is inspirational enough that I wanted to set about the task of slowly drizzling a cup and a half of olive oil into a mortar while pestling four cloves of garlic, a pinch of sea salt, and the juice of a lemon wedge.

    recipe 2006

  • I don't recommend going this route unless you're very tenacious and vicious in your pestling!

    Archive 2005-04-01 Niki 2005

  • I don't recommend going this route unless you're very tenacious and vicious in your pestling!

    Coopers Stout & Treacle Spice Cake with Pears Niki 2005

  • In Chinese illustrations we see the moon-palace of Ch'ang O, who stole the pill of immortality and flew to the moon, the fragrant tree which one of the genii tried to cut down, and a hare pestling medicine in a mortar.

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission

    Podium Cafe 2008

  • Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission

    Podium Cafe 2008

  • Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission

    Podium Cafe 2008

  • Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission

    Podium Cafe Bruce Suomi 2008

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