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‖ metate|məˈtɑːteɪ|
[Aztec metatl.]
A flat or somewhat hollowed oblong stone, upon which grain, cocoa, etc. is ground by means of a smaller stone. Also metate-stone (Funk's Stand. Dict.).
1834in Southwestern Hist. Q. (1942) XLV. 330 Mrs. Roark had a Mexican utensil for grinding corn, called a metate. It was a large rock which had a place scooped out of the center that would hold a peck of corn. 1847W. S. Henry Campaign Sk. War with Mexico 134 The eldest was on her knees at the medatstone, grinding corn. 1854Bartlett Explor. Texas, etc. II. 245 Several broken metates, or corn-grinders, lie about the pile. Ibid. 276. 1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xviii. 199 In the caves there are only the metates left—the big stones on which they [sc. the Indians] ground their meal. 1972Sci. Amer. May 89/3 The manos, or stone rollers, and metates, or shallow stone troughs, that are used together to grind maize. 1975Ibid. Jan. 100/3 Other fragments showed evidence of splitting, indicating that the grain had been prepared not by pounding but by being rolled back and forth on a stone metate. |