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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



... low, old-fashioned one, covered externally with dark blue mortar in French provincial style, and internally presenting every appearance of hospitality and comfort. The parlours in which Germain was shown into the presence of the owner were hung about with mellowed tapestry, and their doors and windows were open, leading out upon a gallery and thence ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... opposition to the principles on which they found their opposition to the established church. Surely it cannot be, that wise master-builders should much longer employ themselves in daubing this papal wall with untempered mortar." p. 39-92. ...
— The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 • Various
... ounces; spermaceti, four ounces; soap powder, four ounces; cinnabar, two drams; essence of rose, one dram. Melt the soap and spermaceti with the oil in a bath water; add the powder, and mix the whole in a marble mortar. It forms a paste which softens and whitens the ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous
... Antwerp would have been! One likes to think that the great creations of the past are not all lost, and that in the land to which the souls of the Masters have passed we may find still living the mighty thoughts to which their love gave birth. Are our cathedrals only stones and mortar, and are our paintings ...
— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar
... others. I can't have the pestle and mortar carried into the drawing-room, and the place smelling ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


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