Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
2. (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
3. (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
4. (countable, military) 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.
5. (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
6. (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
7. (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
8. To fire a mortar (weapon).

Example Sentences

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.

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

Word Forms

• mortars
• morter
• mortaring
• mortared

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When Should You Use Mortar?

Use mortar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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