Definitions for mortars

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mortars mor·tar

Spelling: [mawr-ter]

IPA: /ˈmɔr tər/

Mortars is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in mortars (amorrst).

Definitions for mortars

noun

1. a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle.
2. any of various mechanical appliances in which substances are pounded or ground.
3. a cannon very short in proportion to its bore, for throwing shells at high angles.
4. some similar contrivance, as for throwing pyrotechnic bombs or a lifeline.
5. a mixture of lime or cement or a combination of both with sand and water, used as a bonding agent between bricks, stones, etc.
6. any of various materials or compounds for bonding together bricks, stones, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to plaster or fix with mortar.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to attack with mortar fire or shells.

Origin of mortars

before 1000; Middle English, Old English mortere and Old French mortier Latin mortārium; (defs 3, 4) translation of French mortier Latin, as above; see -ar²

Examples for mortars

When Louise and Bibi returned to their home, they found it strewn with ammunition and pockmarked with mortar craters.

Then came the day Mustafa, along with two others, was killed by a mortar shell.

He described them as large cities with houses made of stone and mortar.

Of such incompatibles is compounded the mortar of his art work.

Artillery and mortar duels all around the outskirts of Donetsk rumble angrily every day.

Pound the veal also in a mortar, adding butter to it by degrees.

These must all be pounded fine in a mortar, and well mixed and sifted.

I prefer the philosophy of bricks and mortar to the philosophy of turnips.

Beat them all separately in a mortar, and then mix them well together.

Holding the architectural smorgasbord of a castle together was cement, wire, and mortar.