Brewer's: 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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