Mortar

Definitions

1. A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
   uncountable
2. A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
   countable
3. A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
   countable, historical
4. 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.
   countable
5. In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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