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▸ noun: (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
▸ noun: (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
▸ noun: (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
▸ noun: (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
▸ verb: (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
▸ verb: To fire a mortar (weapon).
▸ verb: To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
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trench mortar,
howitzer,
mastic,
mixtion,
mortarium,
mortarman,
concrete masonry unit,
life mortar,
masonry,
mortarboard,
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