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mortars

noun

Meaning

  1. A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
  2. A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
  3. A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
  4. To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
  5. To pound in a mortar.
  6. To fire a mortar (weapon).

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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