Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—K

Knights of the Pestle

or Knights of the Pestle and Mortar. Apothecaries or druggists, whose chief instrument is the pestle and mortar, used in compounding medicines.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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