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Mortar   /mˈɔrtər/   Listen
Mortar

noun
1.
A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.  Synonyms: howitzer, trench mortar.
2.
Used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall.
3.
A bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle.
verb
1.
Plaster with mortar.



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"Mortar" Quotes from Famous Books



... as it distils, and when it begins to slack, then increase your Fire till the Glass begin to glow; continu this heat till no more will distil, then let it cool of it self, take the Receiver off, stop it very close with Wax, take the Matter out of the Glass, beat it to powder in an Iron Mortar, with a steel Pestle; and then grind it on a Stone with good distilled Vinegar, put this Matter so ground into a Pot, poure good distilled Vinegar upon it, that two parts be full, set the Pot into a Bath ...
— Of Natural and Supernatural Things • Basilius Valentinus

... its foundations in bygone days.... Buried treasure, looted, some of it, for the palace overhead, but still rare and lovely.... That was a gleam of lapis lazuli that winked at him from the crumbling mortar under his feet. ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... steadily in feathery flakes, hiding the grime of London beneath a garment of shimmering white and transforming the commonplace houses built of brick and mortar, each capped with its ugly chimneystack, into glittering fairy palaces, crowned with silver ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... was levelled; Sugarlips backed against an adjoining wall, with a nervous adhesiveness that evidently proved him less fearful of a little mortar than a great gun! ...
— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour

... There was an unaccustomed decision in his tones; the boyish inflection had gone. It was a man who was speaking, and determinedly, too. "You've no business to be everlastingly gazing at green fields. You ought to be turning 'em into music so that the people who've got only bricks and mortar to stare at can get ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler


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