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noun
1.
a mixture of lime or cement or a combination of both with sand and water, used as a bonding agent between bricks, stones, etc.
2.
any of various materials or compounds for bonding together bricks, stones, etc.: Bitumen was used as a mortar.
verb (used with object)
3.
to plaster or fix with mortar.
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Mortarless
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English morter < Anglo-French; Old French mortier mortar1, hence the mixture produced in it
1250–1300; Middle English morter < Anglo-French; Old French mortier mortar1, hence the mixture produced in it
Related forms
mor·tar·less, adjective
mor·tar·y, adjective
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Word Origin & History
mortar
"short cannon," 1558, originally mortar-piece, from M.Fr. mortier "short cannon," from O.Fr. "bowl for mixing or pounding" (see mortar (2)). So called for its shape.
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Medical Dictionary
mortar mor·tar (môr'tər)
n.
A vessel in which drugs or other substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.
A machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed.
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