Stone pestle
A heavy stone tool for crushing grain — an old, wordless implement passed down many hands.
A stone pestle in a dream is the dream's image of an old, wordless implement that has been used by many hands across generations. The pestle is polished by the work; the shape carries the labour of the people who held it. The dream brings the pestle when something in your life — a family practice, a piece of received craft, a way of preparing food or a problem — is being done with an old tool whose value is in its accumulated use. A stone pestle wielded with the right grip is the dream affirming the inheritance. A stone pestle left in the cupboard, with the household using a machine that does the work faster, is the dream noting that the old labour and its accumulated polish have been retired in favour of an output that does not carry the same hand.