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Bricklayer's bonding material
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mortar
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. mortier, F. mortier, L. mortarium mortar, a large basin or trough in which mortar is made, a mortar (in sense 1, above). See 1st Mortar .] (Arch.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, ...
Usage examples of mortar.
Shake back into the mortar, rub up with about 1 gram of powdered anthracite, and re-calcine for 10 minutes longer.
These glazed brick or tiles, with figured designs, were fixed upon the walls, arches, and archivolts by bitumen mortar, and made up the first mosaics of which we have record.
Remove the shrimp paste with a slotted spoon to a mortar, blender, or food processor.
Allow to cook until lightly browned, then remove to a food processor, blender, or heavy mortar, and blend with the dried shrimp to a smooth paste.
In a mortar or blender, blend the nuts and sugar together to form a paste, and add it to the pan.
Ditto or unfinished mortar of the malpais for grinding chili and other ingredients for sauce.
I told Colonel Manks he should have told Captain Slayke to invest in more large mortars.
He held the pestle upright on the table, chewed his mastic and ground his medicaments in the mortar till the late hours, deep in care.
Cannon, mortars, and musketoons were mounted to command the fort inside the walls, and a continuous rain of fire began from the hills.
But the Venetian and Spanish treasures still kept their secret, and Palissy was forced to work on in the dark, buying cheap earthen pots and breaking them, and pounding the pieces in a mortar, so as to discover, if he could, the substances of which they were made.
Daniels took out a penknife and dug into the mortar between two concrete blocks.
Though he had yet to learn how to save Reggs completely, at least now when the mortars or the grenades or the punji pits took him out, the rifleman died a man.
We also piled on other objects: light machine guns, recoilless cannon, mortars, and boxes of shells and grenades.
Behind us the mortar and recoilless rifle teams had set up their weapons and lay next to them waiting for orders.
They tell you everything in the Academy: leadership, communications, the precise form of a regimental parade, laser range-finding systems, placement of patches on uniforms, how to compute firing patterns for mortars, wine rations for the troops, how to polish a pair of boots, servicing recoilless rifles, delivery of calling cards to all senior officers within twenty-four hours of reporting to a new post, assembly and maintenance of helicopters, survival on rocks with poisonous atmosphere or no atmosphere at all, shipboard routines, and a million other details.