: a stone with a concave upper surface used as the lower millstone for grinding grains and especially corn
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The seeds get roasted, peeled by hand then ground up using the metate on the floor.
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Andrea Aliseda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
While kneeling to twist the mano of the metate, the seeds are dragged across the curved surface to create a paste.
—Andrea Aliseda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
Pasquier designed the delicate props, which include tiny metates, stone tools used to grind corn in Mexican food preparation.
—Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
For generations before the arrival of the mills, the grinding was done by hand on a sloped stone known as a metate.
—Joe Ray, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
When the ingredients were properly roasted, Santiago transferred them to the metate for grinding.
—Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
The flat stone was most likely a metate, or grinding stone, placed there as part of a burial ritual.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
Nearby rests a portable metate (mortar and pestle) that once belonged to her grandmother.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
Don’t expect a discus of corn — these take their shape from a metate (a stone Mesoamerican tool for grinding corn).
—Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Aug. 2022
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Andrea Aliseda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
While kneeling to twist the mano of the metate, the seeds are dragged across the curved surface to create a paste.
—Andrea Aliseda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
Pasquier designed the delicate props, which include tiny metates, stone tools used to grind corn in Mexican food preparation.
—Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
For generations before the arrival of the mills, the grinding was done by hand on a sloped stone known as a metate.
—Joe Ray, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
When the ingredients were properly roasted, Santiago transferred them to the metate for grinding.
—Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
The flat stone was most likely a metate, or grinding stone, placed there as part of a burial ritual.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
Nearby rests a portable metate (mortar and pestle) that once belonged to her grandmother.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
Don’t expect a discus of corn — these take their shape from a metate (a stone Mesoamerican tool for grinding corn).
—Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Aug. 2022
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“Metate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metate. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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