Mortars is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MORTARS in dictionary:

VERB:
• MORTAR, to bind with a type of cement
• attack or bombard with a mortar
• fix or join using mortar
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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to secure with mortar (a type of cement)

Words related to MORTARS

mortar8 mortared11 mortaring12

How to use MORTARS in a sentence

• On the land side it was open, but on the sea side it was fringed by powerful batteries containing mortars and cannon of a size never seen before.
• It consisted of twenty-four heavy guns and mortars, and a plentiful supply of ammunition and stores.
• Bancroft and show him where to plant the mortars and also show him the center of the stronghold.
• The capture of Fort Donelson was rendered possible by the use of mortars and was the first occasion in the war in which mortars had been brought to bear.
• It is probable that this was originally done in hand mortars.
• The English admiral states, that all three of the works mounted eighty-one guns and mortars.
• The armament consisted of two five and a half inch brass mortars, and eight iron guns, the latter including two eighteen-pounders, four six-pounders, and two four-pounders.
• We started at midnight with a brigade of Infantry, 1,000 Cavalry, two troops of Horse Artillery, and eight heavy guns and mortars.
• There was a small coast battery near containing two or three mortars, and a shell was thrown at the boat as it held its daring course for the shore.
• This was done by chopping it into small pieces and filling with it one of the mortars and pounding it with a pestle.
• We have captured about 44,000 prisoners and 1,400 guns, howitzers and trench mortars.
• The Germans developed the idea and the perfected mortars are of steel, and capable of throwing bombs weighing several hundred pounds.
• Cement mortars should never be worked up after setting has taken place.
• Mortars were of various sizes, some of them measuring 2 feet in diameter.
• There they erected batteries of cannon and mortars, and fired furiously on the town, which however the prince of Hesse resolved to defend to the last extremity.
• He likewise made prize of another French ship, with seventy soldiers, two hundred barrels of powder, two large brass mortars, and other stores of the like destination.
• That day and the next was occupied in cutting roads, transporting guns and mortars upon elephants, and making arrangements for storming the fort.
• The English had 204 pieces, consisting of 91 mortars, and 113 guns.
• Two of us and 71 men are on a course in trench mortars.
• However, we are educating them not to send them over too often, as we send over two to their one with our mortars, and in time we shall get them under our thumbs I hope.
• Hand-querns were used for the grinding of corn, and numbers of these and of mortars for pounding grain remain.
• During the seventh every exertion was made to land and bring up the remaining guns and mortars, which was accomplished during the night.
• Jackson had been attached to a heavy battery, and his first duty was to transport guns and mortars to the forts which protected Point Isabel.
• They are then pounded to a paste in mortars of marble, which paste is afterwards subjected to the action of a press, as in the case of the olive.
• A Practical Treatise on the Application of the Principle of the Rifle to Guns and Mortars of every Calibre.

Similar words containing MORTAR without suffix s

mortar8 mortary12 mortared11 mortaring12 mortarman13 mortarmen13 mortarier11 mortarless12 mortariest12 mortarboard16 mortarboards17

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