mortar

• binding agent
• bowl
• cement
• concrete
• crushing bowl
• grinder
• grout
• mill
• mixing bowl
• paste
• plaster
• stucco

• dry mixture
• dust
• flat surface
• fragment
• pestle
• powder
• rubble
• smooth surface

• noun
  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.
• verb
  1. To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
  2. To pound in a mortar.
  3. To fire a mortar (weapon).

• The workers used mortar to hold the bricks together.
• The old wall began to crumble as the mortar weakened over time.
• She crushed the herbs in a mortar with a pestle to make a paste.
• The mortar between the stones needed to be replaced.
• Traditional pharmacies once used a mortar and pestle to grind medicines.

sand

handgun

cannon

tar

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