It will be such a Pestling device, sir Amorous; it will pound all your enemy's practices to powder, and blow him up with his own mine, his own train.
"Epicoene Or, The Silent Woman"
Ben Jonson
Its business was to feel for barracks, batteries, and other sound investments for valuable munitions; not to have a sporting flutter here, there, and everywhere; much less to indulge in the sheer luxury of Pestling a ruined area to powder.
"Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front"
E. W. Hornung