mortar and handle is incorrectly written and it should be written as "Mortar and hand" being its meaning:
Name Comun.m.el mortar is a great tool of kitchens and the drugstores or chemical laboratories or pharmacopoeia. It serves for crushing or mashing the ingredients such as garlic, pepper, parsley, drugs or other items. They can be wood ( the more current and culinary ) metal - called almirez - ceramic or stone such as marble. Consists mortar, amen your material and use of two elements: a container deep and rounded, mimicking a glass or similar Bowl, where spoil substances them to crush, and an another utensil, a hammer, with wide and thick Cape and tail adapted to the fist of the hand to mash the contents. Is of the same material as the bowl.
