Pestles sentence example

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  • The veinstuff is broken small either by hand or in rock-breakers, and stamped to fine powder in stamp mills, which are practically large mechanically-worked pestles and mortars, the stamp proper weighing from 500 to moo lb.
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  • Rice is hulled and grain coarsely ground in stone querns or by water pestles.
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  • Young men are pounding rice flour in mortars using heavy wooden pestles.
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