A flat groundstone tool used in association with a metate for grinding things such as nuts, berries, corn, and rock A mano is held in the hand and pressed against a metate with the material to be ground located between the two The Spanish word for "hand" Back
From the Spanish la mano ("hand"), a loaf-shaped handstone used for grinding seeds, pigments, and so forth, on a metate or millingstone (Moratto 1984: 592)