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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.