"trench mortar" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 64",
          "text": "The medical captain, ‘What hit you?’ Me, with the eyes shut, ‘A trench-mortar shell.’",
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        "A small mortar designed to fire shells from one trench to an enemy trench."
      ],
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          "mortar",
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          "shell",
          "shell"
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          "trench",
          "trench"
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          "word": "toc emma"
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        {
          "word": "trench-mortar"
        }
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  "word": "trench mortar"
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          "ref": "1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 64",
          "text": "The medical captain, ‘What hit you?’ Me, with the eyes shut, ‘A trench-mortar shell.’",
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        "A small mortar designed to fire shells from one trench to an enemy trench."
      ],
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          "trench"
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