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mortarboard

noun

Etymology

From mortar + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as mortarboard — “mortar + board”

Definitions

  1. A rectangular board, with a handle, on which mortar or plaster is carried

    A rectangular board, with a handle, on which mortar or plaster is carried: a hawk.

  2. An academic cap that has a flat square top with a tassel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mortarboard. 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 mortarboard. 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 mortarboard

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