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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(31) We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire.
(32) From their position in the hills, the forces lobbed three mortar bombs into the crowded streets.
(33) Unlike the solid cannon ball a mortar shell is hollow and filled with gunpowder.
(34) At 21 months, little Mirza is the youngest to be brought here from the mortar attacks and shelling around Sarajevo.
(35) Two were hit by shrapnel from a mortar bomb at the weekend.
(36) The blue silk mortar board she wore was edged in gold lace with a gold bullion button and tassel.
(37) A well placed mortar shell can therefore kill a great many victims at once.
(38) The mortar fire went on relentlessly, and showers of earth went up.
(39) A great crowd collected, not withstanding the concentration of the mortar fire; and yet there were no remembered casualties.
(40) She was emptying the contents of a stone mortar, a tobacco-colored crush of leaves, on to a scrap of coarse paper.
(41) The mortar team have started up again, sending their shells through the drizzle.
(42) Soldiers had parachuted across,[http://sentencedict.com/mortar.html] but mortar fire had seen them off.
(43) I entered the woods just as three mortar explosions occurred in quick succession, somewhere in the trees a short distance away.
(44) In addition the Roman masonry below is suffering from sulphate attack aggravated by the recent use of cement mortar and render.
(45) Sound waves can also travel through solids, even such as bricks and mortar.
(46) The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb.
(47) If the foundation is made of cinder blocks, they need to be set in a bed of mortar on the concrete.
(48) Several other mortar bombs have been thrown out into the darkness.
(49) Now declare how far you want to fire the mortar shell.
(50) The pieces are laid on mortar over a bed of concrete.
(51) The new mortar should be mixed at one part cement to four parts sand.
(52) Suddenly there was the unmistakable swish of a mortar bomb, then the explosion a few yards away.
(53) The enemy directed heavy mortar fire at the artillery positions while an assault was launched on all sides of the perimeter.
(54) Minor cracks can be repaired with special heat-resistant mortar such as that supplied by Purimachos.
(55) After some ti me the job is completed and the two mortar bombs have been neutralised.
(56) She plopped down too much mortar, smoothed it out and set a brick on it.
(57) As a structural engineer, he draws conclusions about overly high chimneys, mortar quality, and roofing tiles.
(58) Once the mortar rounds started falling, I jumped behind an anthill with my legs exposed.
(59) Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment - it was the best way to make serious money.
(60) Like Patrick, he at once recognised its potential as an improvised 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.