Mortar

Noun

 * 1)  A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding bricks and stones.
 * 2)  A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with either a rifled or smooth bore. It usually has a shorter range than a howitzer, employs a higher angle of fire, and has a tube with a length of 10 to 20 calibers. See also gun; howitzer. JP-1-02.
 * 3)  A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

Derived terms

 * mortarboard

Verb

 * 1) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
 * 2) To fire a mortar (weapon)

Related terms

 * bricks and mortar

Verbs for Mortar
abrade—; beat in—; comminute in—; crumble in—; crunch in—; crush in—; granulate in—; grind in—; pound in—; powder in—; pulverize in—; rasp in—; reduce in—; stamp in—; triturate in—.

Thesaurus
adobe, aim at, alembic, anvil, ashlar, barrage, blast, blitz, bombard, brick, bricks and mortar, caldron, cannon, cannonade, cement, clinker, commence firing, concrete, covering materials, crucible, enfilade, engine, ferroconcrete, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flooring, fusillade, grout, lath and plaster, lathe, machine, masonry, mastic, melting pot, motor, open fire, open up on, parget, pavement, paving, paving material, pepper, plaster, plasters, pop at, prestressed concrete, rake, retort, roofage, roofing, roughcast, shell, shoot, shoot at, siding, snipe, snipe at, stone, strafe, stucco, take aim at, test tube, tile, tiling, torpedo, transducer, transformer, walling, zero in on

Etymology
From mortier, from  mortarium.

Noun

 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: хоросан (khorosán)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Simplifed: 灰泥 (huīní), 砂浆 (shājiāng)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კირდუღაბი
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Italian:


 * Korean: 모르타르 (moreutareu)
 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian: mørtel
 * Persian: ساروج
 * Russian: известковый раствор
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: малтер
 * Roman: malter
 * Serbo-Croatian: malter, mort
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ปูน
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ปูน


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Simplifed: 迫击炮 (pǎijīpào)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: miinipilduja
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: mozsárágyú,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 迫撃砲 (はくげきほう, hakugekihō)


 * Korean: 박격포 (迫撃砲, bakgyeokpo)
 * Macedonian: минофрлач
 * Persian: دیگ, کماره, منداغان
 * Portuguese: morteiro
 * Romanian: mortier
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: mužar
 * Slovak: mažiar
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ปืนครก


 * Ainu: ニース (niisu)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Simplifed: 研钵 (yán bō), 臼 (jiù)
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ewe: to
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: すり鉢, 擂り鉢 (suribachi), 臼 (うす, usu)
 * Korean: 방아확 (bangA-hwak), 절구 (jeolgu), 유발 (乳鉢, yubal) (small-sized)


 * Latvian: piesta
 * Macedonian: аван
 * Norwegian: morter
 * Persian: دارو کوب, سیر کوب
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: avan, mužar, tarionik
 * Slovak: mažiar
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lusong
 * Thai: ครกบดยา, โกร่ง
 * Urdu: (okhlī)

Verb

 * 1) to die