metate / məˈtɑ ti; Spanish mɛˈtɑ tɛ /

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metate 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural me·ta·tes [muh-tah-teez; Spanish me-tah-tes]. /məˈtɑ tiz; Spanish mɛˈtɑ tɛs/.

  1. a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.

更多metate例句

  1. They also prepare a drink by parching corn and grinding it to powder on the metate, and mixing it with water and a little achote.
  2. Their cooking-utensils consist of the metate, pots made of earthenware, and gourds.
  3. On my way I stubbed my stockinged foot against a stone metate or mortar in which Indians and Mexicans make their flour.
  4. Being an Indian she quite cheerfully went back to pounding acorns in a metate.
  5. The animal he caught he throws toward her where she is kneeling before the metate, so that it falls on her skirt.