[
US
/ˈmɔɹtɝ/
]
[ UK /mˈɔːtɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːtɐ/ ]
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
mortar the wall
How To Use mortar In A Sentence
- 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. Are we better off renting?
- Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigour, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was with rigour_. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
- Mortars are also employed, but are done so from a truck platform, or if dismounted, are dismounted quickly and only long enough to drop rounds and then remount the truck and exfiltrate.
- He explained how in such a wall the block wall is parged and the brick and mortar comes right tight to it.
- grind the spices in a mortar
- Oh yeah but if it is their munchies then the other side of south please go get a mortar and pestle to make the munchies munchable LOL!!! Archive 2008-10-01
- Skirting the village, the group crossed a little canal and came under intense mortar fire.
- The third class of ordnance included the guns firing stone projectiles, such as the pedrero (or perrier, petrary, cannon petro, etc.), the mortars, and the old bombards like Edinburgh Castle's famous Mons Meg. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America