At Banga-an, women were winnowing bundles of rice, flipping up flat baskets to dispose of the chaff, while others milled the grain in giant, stone pestles.

It was pitted with small round holes marking the places where squaws had once pounded with stone pestles.

She pressed a stone pestle into the girl's hand and indicated a large stone at one side of the hut.

She was so tired that she could scarcely raise the stone pestle, and she was very hungry.

Meanwhile, two vampires crushed the human remains in the fonts with large stone pestles, making a vile stew of the rotten viscera and bones.

With magic, he floated the bowl back to the polished stone block and let it cool a little before he took a stone pestle and began grinding.

Find of stone pestle has also been reported.

Glass objects, terracotta wheels and animal figurines, stone pestles and balls comprise the other important finds of the period.

The ripe fruit, after the core is removed, is placed in a calabash and pounded with a stone pestle into a stiff, sticky paste.

In the best London restaurants, the spices are ground to order, with a motor-driven stone pestle, a blend for each dish.