Usually means: Binding material for bricks, stones.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word mortar:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mortar: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mortar, mortar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mortar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mortar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mortar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mortar, mortar: Wordnik
  7. mortar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mortar: Wiktionary
  9. mortar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mortar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mortar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mortar, mortar: Dictionary.com
  13. mortar (1), mortar (2), mortar (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mortar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mortar (artillery), Mortar (bowl), Mortar (disambiguation), Mortar (firestop), Mortar (masonry), Mortar (siege cannon), Mortar (weapon), Mortar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mortar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mortar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mortar: Rhymezone
  19. mortar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mortar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mortar: Free Dictionary
  22. mortar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mortar: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. mortar: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. mortar: mosaic glossary
  4. mosaic glossary (No longer online)
  5. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Mortar (disambiguation), mortar: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mortar (disambiguation), mortar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Mortar (disambiguation), mortar: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Mortar: Castle Terms
  4. mortar: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mortar: Easton Bible
  2. Mortar, Mortar: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mortar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Mortar: Construction Glossary
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See mortared as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
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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