A hand-held stone, often granitic, used with a metate to grind dried corn or other plant foods.
a shaped stone used for grinding food
a smaller stone that is held in the hands and moved back and forth over the surface of the metate
a smaller stone tool (or rock) used to grind corn or other grains
Part of a tool used for grinding corn and other grains. It is rolled across the metate to grind the grain.
A shaped, hand-held stone used to grind grains, nuts, seeds, and mineral pigments by moving it back and forth on a metate
A piece of volcanic rock used with both hands to grind food against another rock. Means hand
a loaf-shaped handstone used for grinding seeds, pigments, and so forth, metate or millingstone.
a stone used to mash meal
(MAH-no) Spanish Hand; applied to grinding stone held in hand.