Synonym: howitzer, trench mortar. Similar words: mortal, immortal, mortality, mortality rate, shortage, important, comfortable, mortify. Meaning: ['mɔrtər /'mɔːtə] 
n. 1. a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range 2. used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall 3. a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle. v. plaster with mortar.
n. 1. a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range 2. used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall 3. a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle. v. plaster with mortar. 
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(1) A home isn't just bricks and mortar.
(2) The mason flushed the joint with mortar.
(3) The farmers pound rice in a mortar.
(4) Use a pestle and mortar to crush the spices.
(5) We were under constant mortar fire.
(6) He was killed in a mortar attack.
(7) The occasional mortar burst near our truck.
(8) The 120mm mortar has a range of 18,000 yards.
(9) The prescription was being pounded down in the mortar.
(10) Mortar knits bricks together.
(11) You'll need a pestle and mortar to grind the spices.
(12) As an investment[sentencedict.com], bricks and mortar are not what they were.
(13) Three mortar shells had landed close to a crowd of people.
(14) Using a pestle and mortar, pulverise the bran to a coarse powder.
(15) Artillery and mortar shells were landing in the outskirts of the city.
(16) Rifle grenades, land mines, dynamite, antitank guns, mortar shells.
(17) Rebels fired mortar shells directly into the town square.
(18) With its aid, two unexploded mortar bombs are located.
(19) Around dawn they were hit with mortar fire.
(20) The mortar shell explodes before it is fired.
(21) The exploding mortar shell has a strength of 7.
(22) Then Charlie started firing mortar rounds.
(23) We feel that bricks and mortar are solid investment.
(24) In Tobruk, leading a patrol in no-man's land, he was blown up by a mortar bomb.
(25) A cameraman was killed when his vehicle came under mortar fire .
(26) Three soldiers were killed by friendly fire when a mortar bomb hit their truck.
(27) We now need funding to turn the plans into bricks and mortar.
(28) Crush the garlic into a paste using a pestle and mortar.
(29) I was nearly forty when I finally invested in bricks and mortar.
(30) The new college will cost about ￡37 million in bricks and mortar.
More similar words: mortal, immortal, mortality, mortality rate, shortage, important, comfortable, mortify, importance, mortgage, uncomfortable, importantly, of importance, postmortem, post-mortem, post mortem, transportable, transportation, star, stare, spartan, curtain, certain, tarry, target, start, avatar, starch, guitar, starve.