pilant
-grinding
Present participle of piler.
Les grains de riz étaient autrefois décortiqués en les pilant dans des mortiers.
Rice grains used to be husked by pounding it in mortars.
Mlle Pilant, permettez-moi de me présenter.
Miss Pilant, may I introduce myself?
Ils commencèrent par un travail préliminaire : on pulvérisa des échantillons en les pilant à la main dans un mortier en agate, on constata que leur pH était de 6 à 7 dans presque tous les échantillons.
They started with preliminary work: samples were comminuted by grinding them by hand in an agate mortar, their pH was determined at 6 to 7 in nearly all samples.
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