mortar

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/

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

A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
“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.”
A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
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.
In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

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

To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
To pound in a mortar.
To fire a mortar (weapon).
To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
“The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.”