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Definition of Mortar
1. Noun. A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.
2. Verb. Plaster with mortar. "Mortar the wall"
3. Noun. Used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall.
4. Noun. A bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle.
Definition of Mortar
1. n. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
2. n. A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
3. v. t. To plaster or make fast with mortar.
4. n. A chamber lamp or light.
Definition of Mortar
1. Noun. A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding bricks and stones. ¹
2. Noun. (countable military) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers. ¹
3. Noun. A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. ¹
4. Verb. To use mortar or plaster to join two things together. ¹
5. Verb. To fire a mortar (weapon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mortar
1. to secure with mortar (a type of cement) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Mortar
1. 1. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle. 2. [F. Mortier, fr. L. Mortarium mortar (for trituarating). A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc, at high angles of elevation, as 45 deg, and even higher; so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. Mortar bed, a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch. Mortar piece, a mortar. Origin: OE. Morter, AS. Mortere, L. Mortarium: cf. F. Mortier mortar. Cf. Sense 2 (below), also 2d Mortar, Martel, Morter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortar
Literary usage of Mortar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"IN respect to the efficiency of the mortar-boats constructed at St. Louis, ...
The huge mortar had previously been placed on board, and fixed upon one of ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"IN constructive engineering, the use of cement mortar, both as a binding material
for stone and brick masonry and as a matrix for concrete, is increasing ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"mortar. A mixture of lime or of cement, or of both, with sand and water, or, ...
Ordinary mortar is made with lime and sand alone ; that made with cement is ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The material was Besides the old-fashioned use instead of corn- mills, they were
retained for all purposes for which the mortar and pestle are now employed ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Bricks should not be merely laid ; every brick should be rubbed and pressed down
in such a manner as to force the mortar into the pores of the bricks, ..."
6. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"All the carbonic acid and the water are thus removed, and the mortar is dried
without ... Portions of mortar rapidly weighed (of recent mortar about 1 grm., ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Flat or flush joints (A) arc formed by pressing the protruding mortar ... In order
to increase the density and thereby enhance the durability of the mortar, ..."
8. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"IN respect to the efficiency of the mortar-boats constructed at St. Louis, ...
The huge mortar had previously been placed on board, and fixed upon one of ..."
9. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"IN constructive engineering, the use of cement mortar, both as a binding material
for stone and brick masonry and as a matrix for concrete, is increasing ..."
10. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"mortar. A mixture of lime or of cement, or of both, with sand and water, or, ...
Ordinary mortar is made with lime and sand alone ; that made with cement is ..."
11. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The material was Besides the old-fashioned use instead of corn- mills, they were
retained for all purposes for which the mortar and pestle are now employed ..."
12. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Bricks should not be merely laid ; every brick should be rubbed and pressed down
in such a manner as to force the mortar into the pores of the bricks, ..."
13. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"All the carbonic acid and the water are thus removed, and the mortar is dried
without ... Portions of mortar rapidly weighed (of recent mortar about 1 grm., ..."
14. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Flat or flush joints (A) arc formed by pressing the protruding mortar ... In order
to increase the density and thereby enhance the durability of the mortar, ..."
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