mortar

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/ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/

noun 5verb 4

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(noun.)

ADJ

heavy

The soldiers struggled to position the heavy mortar in the muddy battlefield.

VERB + MORTAR

be armed with, have

The soldiers had mortars positioned on the hillside to defend the village.

fire

MORTAR + VERB

burst, explode

A mortar exploded in the distance, shaking the windows of the building.

hit sth

MORTAR + NOUN

attack, fire

The soldiers took cover when enemy mortar attacks began at dawn.

bomb, shell

The village was damaged when a mortar bomb fell near the market square.

Definitions

noun

A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.

A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.

In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

verb

To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.

To pound in a mortar.

To fire a mortar (weapon).

To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fir

howitzer

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

Wiktionary

The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

Wiktionary

We can build a wall with bricks and mortar.

Tatoeba · #1345725

I need to buy a mortar and pestle to grind garbanzo beans for authentic hummus.

Tatoeba · #6621364

And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar.

Tatoeba · #7817540

The mortar and pestle always go together.

Tatoeba · #8971353

Usage Notes

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