Pestle

Noun

 * 1) A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.

Verb

 * 1) To pound, crush, rub or grind (things), as in a mortar with a pestle.

Thesaurus
abrade, atomize, beat, bray, brecciate, cheese grater, comminute, comminutor, contriturate, crumb, crumble, crush, crusher, disintegrate, flour, fragment, grain, granulate, granulator, granulize, grate, grater, grind, grind to powder, grinder, kominuter, levigate, levigator, mash, masher, mill, millstone, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, pound, powder, pulverize, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, reduce to powder, rock crusher, roller, scrunch, shard, shred, shredder, smash, squash, steamroller, triturate, triturator

Etymology
Via pestel:, from  pistillum:, from pinso:. Cognate to pesto:.

Noun

 * Finnish: petkel
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 擂粉木


 * Korean: 방앗공이, 절굿공이, 막자
 * Macedonian: толчник
 * Russian: пест,
 * Spanish: ,