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Meaning mortar meaning

What does mortar mean?
Definitions in simple English

mortar Noun

— A mortar is kind of large gun that fires explosive shells. — Mortar is a type of paste used to stick bricks together. — A mortar is a bowl used with a pestle to crush food or drugs into smaller pieces.

mortar

— noun a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range — verb plaster with mortar mortar the wall — noun used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall — noun a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle

Synonyms mortar synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mortar?

mortar English » English

plaster cement trench mortar mud lime howitzer clay stucco pounding pot pounding mortar grout whitewash triturator stovepipe sludge slosh slime slab silt sand pulp quicklime quick-lime puddle pounder plaster with mortar plaster of lime and ashes pestle parget ooze mortar box mire minethrower mine thrower mill-stone marl hammer gypsum gun grinding stone do cement work dirt daub cotyle concrete compost compo coming cannon calcium oxide calcinate

Topics mortar topics

What do people use mortar to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Daily life Food Food preparation Steps in food preparation

Pound in mortar and pestle
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with bricks
Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking utensil

Conjugation mortar conjugation

How do you conjugate mortar?

mortar · verb

Examples mortar examples

How do I use mortar in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I prefer to shop at brick-and-mortar stores.

Movie subtitles

And as you can see, this was serious bricks and mortar, built to last.
Once the plot has been cleared they put up stone walls, without mortar.
For the mortar, I'll give you a quart.
Direct hit on his foxhole. A mortar.
Exactly at 1340, my mortar crews will outline the target area.
About a thousand rounds of small arms ammo and 23 mortar bombs.
Down to 41 men, one officer, 1200 rounds, 17 mortar.
Then have a go at the mortar.
Try and get that mortar, I'll cover you from here.
Put them into the mortar and let's get on with it!
We're receiving heavy mortar fire on our right.
Jim, let's get some mortar fire at TA-4606-yolk.
Blood makes poor mortar.
On the theory that there's always one more thing I'll set up the mortar here to create an additional diversion.
With stone and mortar. I most certainly can!
Don Camillo has a mortar buried somewhere.
Your 1881 mortar?
Mortar, gypsum and dirt.
Lousy mortar.
If we don't get those mortar positions, we're dead ducks. All right.
I'd let you stay up here with the mortar if I could.
Munition, mortar shells. had a bullet in his lung.
Not of wood, but of mortar and stone.
For every rifle, I'll give you a pint. For the mortar, a quart.
I cannot see through stone and mortar, like some I know.
Do you know why he puts mortar between the collars?
Say a high-explosive shell, a three-inch mortar?
And what do they do to the guy that throws a grenade, fires a mortar shell, aims a navy gun, drops the airplane bomb, or presses a button that sends a missile 5,000 miles with a hydrogen warhead?
We were sitting on the beach, and this mortar started hitting us.
That enemy mortar at 8-9-3.
My support is limited to a few stones, mortar, nails.
Well, I trust this mortar will steel my hand.
I thought I had to work with stone and mortar, but perhaps I was wrong.
The emperor will not be stopped with bricks and mortar.

News and current affairs

Three Israeli civilians have been killed by rocket or mortar fire from Gaza, and 64 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ground invasion began.
At the same time, the new digital economy is less capital-intensive than the old brick-and-mortar economy. This may be accentuated in the future by the advent of the so-called sharing economy.
Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.

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