Crossword-Solution: MORTAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mortar | n. | A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle. |
| Mortar | n. | A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. |
| Mortar | n. | A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways. |
| Mortar | v. t. | To plaster or make fast with mortar. |
| Mortar | n. | A chamber lamp or light. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MORTAR (5)
Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
Small pieces of granite of various sizes were ingeniously laid together without mortar to construct these ancient foundations.
His head was covered with a scarlet cap, faced with fur—of that kind which the French call “mortier”, from its resemblance to the shape of an inverted mortar.
Peacocked with the educational badge each had attained and crowned with a mortar board which got its name from a board used by masons to hold cement.
They had not begun to lath and plaster yet, but the clean, fresh smell of the mortar in the walls mingling with the pungent fragrance of the pine shavings neutralised the Venetian odour that drew in over the water.
Quotes with MORTAR (3)
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
I don’t know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist. Why do we need more evidence? They exist here on this very Earth. Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani’sdulcet words all around you. And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children’s cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice, their families, and their limbs. Yes, hell certainly does existri…
It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life? And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 72 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).