Definition of metate in English:

metate

noun məˈtɑːteɪməˈtätā

(in Central America) a flat or slightly hollowed oblong stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a smaller stone.
（中美洲）平面（或微凹）石磨盘（用以碾磨谷、可可豆等）
she ground the corn on a metate
Example sentencesExamples
- There was a long tradition of amazing stonework in ancient Costa Rica, which includes spectacular ‘flying panel’ metates [corn-grinding flats] and other objects carved of basalt.
- Ubelaker has associated such joint modifications in the remains of prehistoric Ecuadorian women with corn-grinding using a two-handed mano and slab metate.
- Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker.
- As we walked on, we came to a mesa with slabs of rock and about a hundred metates.
- In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate and baking the flat corn disks on a dry, clay platter known as a comal.
- With stone roller on metate, she grinds the corn, then grinds again.

Origin

From American Spanish, from Nahuatl métatl.

Definition of metate in US English:

metate

(also metate stone)

nounməˈtätā

(in Central America) a flat or slightly hollowed oblong stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a smaller stone.
（中美洲）平面（或微凹）石磨盘（用以碾磨谷、可可豆等）
she ground the corn on a metate
Example sentencesExamples
- As we walked on, we came to a mesa with slabs of rock and about a hundred metates.
- Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker.
- Ubelaker has associated such joint modifications in the remains of prehistoric Ecuadorian women with corn-grinding using a two-handed mano and slab metate.
- In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate and baking the flat corn disks on a dry, clay platter known as a comal.
- There was a long tradition of amazing stonework in ancient Costa Rica, which includes spectacular ‘flying panel’ metates [corn-grinding flats] and other objects carved of basalt.
- With stone roller on metate, she grinds the corn, then grinds again.

Origin

From American Spanish, from Nahuatl métatl.

单词	metate
释义	Definition of metate in English: metate noun məˈtɑːteɪməˈtätā (in Central America) a flat or slightly hollowed oblong stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a smaller stone. （中美洲）平面（或微凹）石磨盘（用以碾磨谷、可可豆等） she ground the corn on a metate Example sentencesExamples There was a long tradition of amazing stonework in ancient Costa Rica, which includes spectacular ‘flying panel’ metates [corn-grinding flats] and other objects carved of basalt. Ubelaker has associated such joint modifications in the remains of prehistoric Ecuadorian women with corn-grinding using a two-handed mano and slab metate. Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker. As we walked on, we came to a mesa with slabs of rock and about a hundred metates. In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate and baking the flat corn disks on a dry, clay platter known as a comal. With stone roller on metate, she grinds the corn, then grinds again. Origin From American Spanish, from Nahuatl métatl. Definition of metate in US English: metate (also metate stone) nounməˈtätā (in Central America) a flat or slightly hollowed oblong stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a smaller stone. （中美洲）平面（或微凹）石磨盘（用以碾磨谷、可可豆等） she ground the corn on a metate Example sentencesExamples As we walked on, we came to a mesa with slabs of rock and about a hundred metates. Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker. Ubelaker has associated such joint modifications in the remains of prehistoric Ecuadorian women with corn-grinding using a two-handed mano and slab metate. In indigenous villages, women often make the tortillas the traditional way by grinding corn with a rounded pestle on a flat lava stone called a piedra or metate and baking the flat corn disks on a dry, clay platter known as a comal. There was a long tradition of amazing stonework in ancient Costa Rica, which includes spectacular ‘flying panel’ metates [corn-grinding flats] and other objects carved of basalt. With stone roller on metate, she grinds the corn, then grinds again. Origin From American Spanish, from Nahuatl métatl.
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