Mortar: An Instrument for Pulverizing Grain

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  1. The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
  2. Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.