metate

/muh-tah-tee; Spanish me-tah-te/US // məˈtɑ ti; Spanish mɛˈtɑ tɛ //

陨石,陨落,陨灭,陨铁

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural me·ta·tes [muh-tah-teez; Spanish me-tah-tes]. /məˈtɑ tiz; Spanish mɛˈtɑ tɛs/.
- : a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.

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.
Their cooking-utensils consist of the metate, pots made of earthenware, and gourds.
On my way I stubbed my stockinged foot against a stone metate or mortar in which Indians and Mexicans make their flour.
Being an Indian she quite cheerfully went back to pounding acorns in a metate.
The animal he caught he throws toward her where she is kneeling before the metate, so that it falls on her skirt.