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The pestle is used for pounding and grinding, and the mortar is the bowl.
A motor and pestle is a bowl with a stone used to grind herbs or spices
The pestle and mortar is a bowl with a miniature club. The pestle and mortar are used for grinding/pounding herbs/spices.
A bowl and a rock!
That is a mortar and pestle.
The word pestle is generally used in connection with the word mortar. It is from Latin pistillum, an instrument used for crushing; the mortar is a kind of bowl, and the pestle is used to crush a substance to powder in the mortar.
A pestle is a tool used for grinding. It is usually paired with a mortar, which is a solid robust bowl. The pestle is a heavy rod with a rounded end that is used to grind items within the mortar. PESTLE stands for - Political , economical , social, technological, legal and environmental.
I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but the Mortar and Pestle is the small, usually ceramic or stone, bowl with the rounded masher that people use to make corn meal, etc.
If you are refering to the stone bowls used to hold the wheat to be ground into flour it's called a mortar the items to grind the wheat is called a pestle.
Mortar is a very hard bowl in which softer substances are ground or pounded to a powder with a pestle. This site has a picture: http://bowerykitchens.com/bgmp-80.html
Mortar, using a pestle to grind the grains to flour.
Mortar is the bowl made of a hard substance. Pestle is the heavy counterpart that is used to crush ingredients. Together they are used to ground various substances.