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mortar

About 4.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

trench mortar howitzer cement grout grenade shrapnel artillery shelling rocket balance

Often followed by

and is fire with or of to in joints

Word family

mortared mortaring mortarless mortars

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