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mortar

noun
/ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

  1. derived from mortārium
  2. derived from mortier
  3. inherited from morter

Definitions

  1. A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

    • The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

  2. A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

  3. A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a…

      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.

    2. In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

    3. To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.

    4. To pound in a mortar.

    5. To fire a mortar (weapon).

    6. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

      • The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

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Derived

air mortar, antimortar, brick-and-mortar, brick and mortar, bricks-and-mortar, clicks and mortar, debris mortar, diamond mortar, life mortar, lime mortar, micromortar, mortar and pestle, mortarboard, mortar hoe, mortarless, mortarlike, mortarman, mortary, pestle and mortar, trench mortar, unmortared

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mortar. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mortar. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at mortar

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA