Definition of Metate. Meaning of Metate. Synonyms of Metate

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Definition of Metate

Metate
Metate Me*ta"te, n. [Sp., fr. Mex. metlatl.] A flat or somewhat hollowed stone upon which grain or other food is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle. [Southwestern U. S. & Sp. Amer.]

Meaning of Metate from wikipedia

- A metate (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds. In traditional Mesoamerican cultures...
- Look up metate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A metate is a Mesoamerican quern or milling-stone. Metate may also refer to: Metate (yearbook), the...
- a metate to grind cocoa beans. Chocolate Museum, Bruges. Metate and mano from the Mayan period. Chocolate Museum, Bruges. Costa Rican funeral metate. Chocolate...
- A mano (Spanish for hand) is a ground stone tool used with a metate to process or grind food by hand. It is also known as metlapil, a term derived from...
- a contemporary indigenous kitchen with molcajete (stone mortar) and the metate in the foreground, comal, palm tenate, and a clay pot. San Juan Achiutla...
- Concurrent MetateM is a multi-agent language in which each agent is programmed using a set of (augmented) temporal logic specifications of the behaviour...
- the cooking of food in ovens at ground level, grinding in molcajete and metate. With the Spaniards came the pork, beef and chicken meats; peppercorn, sugar...
- milling station. A bedrock mortar should not be confused with a bedrock metate, which is a flat, trough-shaped depression often found with bedrock mortars...
- unleavened dough for flat cakes by grinding with a handstone on a quern (metate). Quern stones were used in China at least 10,000 years ago to grind wheat...
- contains garlic, onion, tomato, salt and oil, and is traditionally ground in a metate or molcajete. It is served to accompany tamales, tacos, mole or meats. It...