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mortar

noun as in cannon

noun as in plaster

verb as in cement

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Example Sentences

Of such incompatibles is compounded the mortar of his art work.

Then came the day Mustafa, along with two others, was killed by a mortar shell.

Artillery and mortar duels all around the outskirts of Donetsk rumble angrily every day.

When Louise and Bibi returned to their home, they found it strewn with ammunition and pockmarked with mortar craters.

Holding the architectural smorgasbord of a castle together was cement, wire, and mortar.

There, if his eyes did not deceive him, were evidences of mortar dislodged by nefarious toes.

But the fury of the dabblers in bricks and mortar continues unabated, and they will not last long.

The Purbeck marble slab has never been disturbed, being found strongly secured by mortar to the top of the stone coffin.

In the absence of a mortar, a basin plunged into another containing boiling water will answer the purpose.

Get, at a druggist's, half an ounce of each of these articles, and have them mixed and pounded together in a mortar.

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On this page you'll find 100 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mortar, such as: howitzer, ordnance, big bertha, heavy artillery, and long tom.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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