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From Sanskrit मुसल (musala).
मुसळ • (musaḷ) ?
- pestle, a wooden pestle used in husking rice
- a beam or an upright of a sugar mill
- Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “मुसळ”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press