mortar : Idioms & Phrases

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bricks and mortar

  • noun building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them
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Diamond mortar

  • (Chem.), a small steel mortar used for pulverizing hard substances.
Webster 1913

Gauged mortar

  • . See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.
Webster 1913

Mortar bed

  • (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar.
  • a shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed.
Webster 1913

Mortar board

  • . (a) A small square board with a handle beneath, for holding mortar; a hawk . (b) A cap with a broad, projecting, square top; worn by students in some colleges. Slang now worn usually only at graduation time
Webster 1913

Mortar boat ∨ vessel

  • (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch.
Webster 1913

mortar fire

  • noun artillery fire delivered by a mortar
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Mortar piece

  • a mortar. Obs. Shak.
Webster 1913

Stone-mortar

  • (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances.
Webster 1913

trench mortar

  • noun a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
    howitzer; mortar.
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