mortar vs mortise
Definitions
noun
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
- used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
- a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
verb
- plaster with mortar
Examples
In a few quick glances he absorbed the entire rolling farmland: green stonework mortared by tree windbreaks.
In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence.
Definitions
verb
- join by a tenon and mortise
- cut a hole for a tenon in
noun
- a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint
Examples
The new tenants are being put into occupation on probation; they are allotees of land and will not be able to claim possessive rights until the Land Commission is satisfied that they are capable farmers, and have proved their capacity to make productive use of th eland and furnish the regular payments that will amortise the purchase costs.
For these two are no longer categories in an existential phenomenology of Attention or Tyrolean woodcraft but fully amortised within the evident detritus of the Second World War, constantly alluded to in The White Stones.
All members with the exception of the collar ties and wind braces are mortised and tenoned together with long tapered pins that secure the joints.
