Metates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 149 anagrams from letters in metates (aeemstt).
1825-35, Americanism; Mexican Spanish Nahuatl metlatl
Primitive peoples who have used the mano and metate solve this problem in one of two ways.
They also prepare a drink by parching corn and grinding it to powder on the metate, and mixing it with water and a little achote.
Their cooking-utensils consist of the metate, pots made of earthenware, and gourds.
The old man was ready for her to grind: he had a metate prepared inside.
This feature is of interest due to its very shallow depth (4 inches to top of metate).
The older women are winnowing grain and grinding at the metate.
The average Yucatecan housewife is always at the metate in season and out of season.
The girl's instruments and navel-string are buried under a metate.
The function of these primitive mills is to grind, necessitating a rough contact between the surface of the mano and the metate.
Clay is tempered with sandstone crushed on the metate, and built up by coiling.
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