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Sentence count:268+6Posted:2017-01-11Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: howitzertrench mortarSimilar words: mortalimmortalmortalitymortality rateshortageimportantcomfortablemortifyMeaning: ['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. 
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(91) Our firebase had been taking mortar fire from a wooded area some distance away.
(92) The mortar joint is attacked in a similar manner, remembering to always point the chisel inward, never out.
(93) Rounds were chambered, and the mortar positions pre-pared to fire.
(94) Many times when we were set up in our wagon wheels out in the bush somewhere, we would receive mortar fire.
(95) Having set our investment in bricks and mortar, we're now setting our sights on the future.
(96) Finally, new mortar is being inserted in between the stones, involving the total reconstruction of the interior and exterior facings.
(97) The church is constructed of thin bricks with wide mortar joints; its atrium has disappeared but the narthex remains.
(98) This one mortar round took out our machine - gun team, and I received some shrapnel.
(99) Cracks in rendering should be raked out, cut back to sound material if necessary and then filled with new mortar.
(100) I gave no thought to this until heavy mortar fire began to hit extremely close.
(101) As a former building contractor, he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar.
(102) Tuesday's mortar bomb blast left him with three chunks of shrapnel in his abdomen.
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(103) What was a potentially valuable, or at least useful, asset in bricks and mortar rapidly becomes a liability.
(104) To keep the sound of pounding rice with a pestle to a minimum, Grandmother put a quilt under the mortar.
(105) The original bricks and mortar might be pulled down but Leatherslade Farm will remain for ever at the centre of the legend.
(106) For a small job use a bag of mortar mix.
(107) You can also use these flashing tapes over mortar fillets used to seal wall-roof junctions, provided the mortar fillet is sound.
(108) The mortar team in the orchard were delighted when I turned up with ten fresh fish which were cooked immediately.
(109) Meanwhile, the canal is edged with black bricks laid with black mortar which provides a very smart finish to the canal.
(110) The paving is laid on a bed of mortar 3 parts sand to 1 part cement.
(111) Their car came under mortar fire and they had to cross five military checkpoints.
(112) The mortar should be dry enough to brush off the paving without staining the slabs.
(113) Some hours later, out she went again, flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle.
(114) The mortar securing the chimney pot would have to be replaced, along with the pot.
(115) He catches sight of the mortar team and myself sitting on the grass drinking our tea.
(116) The following day we used proper plaster over the hardened mortar, but cellulose filler could also have been used.
(117) The layer reinforces the wall's weak link - the mortar.
(118) It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell.
(119) Mortar and rocket attacks varied in frequency, but they were always a threat.
(120) It was not expected to be waterproof, although obviously in combination with the mortar it should present a united front.
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