pestel
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pestel (plural pestelles)
- A pestle (tool for crushing or pounding)
- The leg of an animal as a cut of meat.
- (rare) A board for threshing upon.
Descendants edit
- English: pestle
References edit
- “pestel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-07.
Old French edit
Noun edit
pestel oblique singular, m (oblique plural pesteaus or pesteax or pestiaus or pestiax or pestels, nominative singular pesteaus or pesteax or pestiaus or pestiax or pestels, nominative plural pestel)
- pestle (tool used for crushing food)