mid-14c. (as a surname late 13c.), from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum "pounder, pestle," related to pinsere "to pound," from PIE *pis-to-, suffixed form of root *peis- "to crush" (cognates: Sanskrit pinasti "pounds, crushes," pistah "anything ground, meal," Greek ptissein "to winnow," Old Church Slavonic pišo, pichati "to push, thrust, strike," pišenica "wheat," Russian pseno "millet").
双语例句
1. Using a pestle and mortar, pulverise the bran to a coarse powder.
用杵和臼，将麸皮磨成粗粉。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He ground the rock candy with a mortar and pestle.
他自己动手用研钵和杵把冰糖研成粉。
来自辞典例句
3. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle?
带有毒药的小球放在带有杵的容器里?
来自电影对白
4. Jin Yu: An iron pestle can be ground down to a needle.
锦玉: 只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针ㄓㄣ.
来自互联网
5. This glass is ground under water using pestle and mortar.