metate in a sentence

Examples

1. The movement of the mano against the metate consists of a circular, rocking or chopping grinding motion using one or both hands.
2. The  flying panel metate is believed to be the precursor to free standing sculptural figures more common later in the Atlantic watershed region.
3. A metate ( grinding stone ) weighing hundreds of pounds has been found at the sites which indicates large scale processing of corn meal.
4. Signs of early habitation by the Hohokam people have been found on Tempe Butte, including petroglyphs, pot shards, scrapers, and metate.
5. A mano, a smooth hand-held stone, is used against a metate, typically a large stone with a depression or bowl.
6. Worse, some techniques were time-consuming and laborious, even when a blender was substituted for a metate, the Mexican mortar and pestle.
7. When a Mexican woman has a well-seasoned metate, she is famous in the neighborhood, and the neighbors borrow it for special events.
8. They obtain their clay from communal lands, digging it up and doing all the processing by hand, even doing the grinding in a metate.
9. After being boiled with lime, softened maize kernels were ground with a tubular hand stone on a flat grinding stone ( metate ) into maize dough.
10. These new metate types might be rectangular with four legs like the jaguar effigy-head examples or might be round in shape with a pedestal base.