in a mortar # 04_NUM_11_08 # [And] the people went about, and gathered [it], and ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 
in a mortar # 20_PRO_27_22 # Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.