Synonyms:
mortar, howitzer, trench_mortar
Meaning: a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
Synonyms:
mortar
Meaning: used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
mortar
Meaning: plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall"
Usage examples
Out of the trunk he made a mortar.
Take some lobster or crab-meat and pound in a mortar.
Suddenly a shower of mortar came rattling down the chimney.
Rubbish, such as old mud huts, and mortar, generally abounds with it.
Ikey's left forefinger was doubled over the edge of the mortar, holding it steady.
Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them in remembrance of my dog."
The concrete of our buildings is obtained by the simultaneous manipulation of gravel and mortar.
His chair, supported by a carved gun-carriage, was modeled upon the ponderous proportions of a 32-inch mortar.
Involuntarily I compared the whole crater to an enormous erected mortar, and the comparison put me in a terrible fright.
"What madness," I thought, "to go down into a mortar, perhaps a loaded mortar, to be shot up into the air at a moment's notice!"