mortar

See also: mortâr and mörtar

English

Mortar and pestle.

Etymology

From Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)tə(r)
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

  1. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
  2. (countable, military) 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. (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)

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

See also

Anagrams

Ido

Verb

mortar (present tense mortas, past tense mortis, future tense mortos, imperative mortez, conditional mortus)

  1. to die

Conjugation

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mortar m

  1. indefinite plural of mort

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century).

Noun

mortar n (uncountable)

  1. mortar (construction material)
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