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Definition of Mortar

Mortar A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle. A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45Á, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways. To plaster or make fast with mortar. A chamber lamp or light. Related Definitions: Above, Also, An, And, Angles, Are, As, At, Bell, Building, By, Carcasses, Cement, Chamber, Commonly, Described, Elevation, Even, Fast, For, Form, From, High, In, Inverted, Joining, Lamp, Lime, Light, Made, Make, Masonry, Material, Mixing, Mortar, Named, Of, Or, Ordnance, Other, Paris, Pestle, Piece, Plaster, Plastering, Pounded, Resemblance, Rubbed, Sand, Shape, Short, So, Sometimes, Strong, The, Throwing, To, Used, Utensil, Vessel, Water, Which, With

Mortar Quotations He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. Herman Melville The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. Stephen Cohen American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. John Yoo Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. Benjamin Britten I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. Eric Bogosian

Mortar Translations mortar in Dutch is mortier, vijzel mortar in Italian is mortaio, calcina mortar in Portuguese is almofariz mortar in Spanish is calcina, mortero

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