Mortar is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MORTAR in dictionary:

VERB:
• to bind with a type of cement
• attack or bombard with a mortar
• fix or join using mortar
• To plaster or make fast with mortar.
• plaster with mortar
• fire on with mortars
NOUN:
• a short smooth-bore gun for firing shells (technically called bombs) at high angles
• a device used for firing a lifeline or firework.
• a cup-shaped receptacle in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used in cooking or pharmacy
• a mixture of lime with cement, sand, and water, used in building to bond bricks or stones.
• small cannon with a short range
• 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 45¡, 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.
• A chamber lamp or light.
• a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
• used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
• a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to secure with mortar (a type of cement)

Words related to MORTAR

mortared11 mortaring12 mortarmen13 mortars9

Words that contain MORTAR

mortars9 mortary12 mortared11 mortaring12 mortarman13 mortarmen13 mortarier11 mortarless12 mortariest12 mortarboard16 mortarboards17

How to use MORTAR in a sentence

• Trim all the upper parts, cut it into small pieces, and pound well in a mortar, till it can be rubbed through a sieve.
• The Chinese buildings are of wood, with stone and plaster, or bricks and mortar.
• The famous aqueduct of the Pont du Gard, near Nismes, in the south of France, has, if I recollect right, no mortar whatever in it.
• And let them take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other mortar, and plaster the house withal.
• Lies are the mortar that bind the savage Individual man into the social masonry.
• Grind well, and after letting the mortar stand two minutes, pour into a third.
• The plane is now laid upside down across the top of the mortar.
• The choice of a suitable commander for the mortar flotilla was less difficult, inasmuch as this little fleet was a creation of the officer who was chosen as its leader.
• The latest development in trench weapons is the Van Deuren mortar, which takes its name from the Belgian officer who is its inventor.
• The contents of the mortar were then laid upon a small platform.
• One does not think of it as a thing of brick and mortar, or as a many-storied temple, but as a casket whose jewels are the prayers of waiting, hoping women.
• But the usual practice is to complete the house at once, finishing it inside and out with the requisite mortar.
• A vessel very badly broken is often made to serve in chimney building by skillful use of mud and mortar.
• They are so adjusted in their setting of stones and mortar as to slope away from the operator at the proper angle.
• Death-laden showers of mortar, bricks, are falling everywhere.
• But private enterprise is sheltered under good opaque bricks and mortar.
• I began at once to pick out the mortar of the pier stones with my knife point.
• After half an hour of mortar picking I got one end of the lowest iron bar out of its socket.
• At this instant, without any warning, something in the wall of my passage gave way, some bit of rotten mortar which held up a stone, or something of the sort.

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