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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pestle .
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Examples
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Joker seeming pestled in his own mortar leads to Pentagon holoplot.
Archive 2007-05-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Joker seeming pestled in his own mortar leads to Pentagon holoplot.
Archive 2007-05-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Joker seeming pestled in his own mortar leads to Pentagon holoplot.
Archive 2007-05-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Joker seeming pestled in his own mortar leads to Pentagon holoplot.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Further Adventures of Batman - Martin H. Greenberg Blue Tyson 2006
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It was big at the top, but they pestled out in this rock.
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It was big at the top, but they pestled out in this rock.
Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes John Wesley Snipes 1976
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And right on the top of that there was a pinnacle, and the Indians had pestled out a thing shaped just like a top.
Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes John Wesley Snipes 1976
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And right on the top of that there was a pinnacle, and the Indians had pestled out a thing shaped just like a top.
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It called for individual nerve and daring on that shell-swept, pestled earth, creeping up to new positions or back for water and food by night, lying "doggo" by day and waiting for a counter-attack by the Germans, who were always the losers in this grim, stealthy advance.
My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915
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"O, you'll do!" the apothecary answered, with a laugh; but he said, in answer to an anxious question from the lady, "He mustn't be moved for an hour yet," and gayly pestled away at a prescription, while she resumed her office of grinding the pounded ice round and round upon her husband's skull.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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