mortar
Meaning of mortar
noun
- A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
- A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
- To pound in a mortar.
- To fire a mortar (weapon).
Information about mortar
- The plural form of mortar is: mortars.
- Languages in which mortar is used:
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Hyphenation of mortar
mor-tar
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- mortar is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
mortar synonyms
Meaning howitzer:
Translation of mortar
- German: Mörtel, Mörser
- French: mortier
- Italian: malta, mortaio
- Portuguese: argamassa, almofariz, morteiro, gral
- Spanish: mortero
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