Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pistor

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PISTOR. Literally one who pounds and brays things in a mortar; thence, more specially, a miller, because in very early times, before the invention of mills for grinding, the corn was brayed into flour with a very heavy pestle, in the manner represented by the figure s. PILUM 1.; and subsequently the same word also signified a baker (Greek ἀρτοποιός), because those tradesmen always ground the flour with which they made their bread. Varro ap. Non. s. Pinsere, p. 152. Plin. H. N. xviii. 28. Varro, ap. Gell. xv. 19.

2. Pistor dulciarius. A confectioner. Mart. xiv. 222.