mortar
substantivoverboatestado nos diálogos
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A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
substantivo
- 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
históricoA short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- 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
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
To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
- 2
To pound in a mortar.
- 3
To fire a mortar (weapon).
- 4
To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
Formas
- plural
- mortars
- pretérito
- mortared
- particípio passado
- mortared
- gerúndio
- mortaring
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- mortars
mortar · A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
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