mortar

The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

(countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.

(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.

(countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

en-noun

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

→ Indonesian: mortar

раство́р

строительный, цементный

هَاوُن

lightweight indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.


mortar

(transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.

The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

en-verb

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

mortars (present singular third-person)
mortaring (participle present)
mortared (participle past)
mortared (past)
morter (alternative)


mortar

(intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life

(intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.)

(intransitive) to come to an end (of movement)

io-head

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

mortas (present)
mortis (past)
mortos (future)
mortus (conditional)
mortez (imperative)
mortar (infinitive present)
mortir (infinitive past)
mortor (future infinitive)
mortas (present)
mortis (past)
mortos (future)
mortus (conditional present)
mortez (imperative present)
mortanta (active adjective participle present)
mortinta (active adjective participle past)
mortonta (active adjective future participle)
mortante (active adverbial participle present)
mortinte (active adverbial participle past)
mortonte (active adverbial future participle)
mortanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
mortinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
mortonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
mortanti (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
mortinti (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
mortonti (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)


mortar

a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

From English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortir.


mortar

mortar (accusative indefinite nominative)
mortarul (accusative definite nominative)
mortar (indefinite)
mortarului (definite)
mortarule (vocative)

Borrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century).