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mortar

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  • Regno Unito//ˈmɔːtə//
  • Canada//ˈmoɹtɚ//
  • Australia//ˈmoːtə//
  • Scozia//ˈmɔɾtəɾ//
  • //ˈmɔːtə//

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

sostantivo

  1. 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. 2

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

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

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

Etimologia

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

verbo

  1. 1

    To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.

  2. 2

    To pound in a mortar.

  3. 3

    To fire a mortar (weapon).

  4. 4

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

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

Forme

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