Noun mortar has 3 senses
  1. mortar, howitzer, trench mortar - a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
    --1 is a kind of high-angle gun
  2. mortar - used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
    --2 is a kind of
    building material
    --2 has substance: cement
    Derived form: verb mortar1
  3. mortar - a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
    --3 is a kind of
    vessel
,Verb mortar has 1 sense
  1. mortar - plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall"
    --1 is one way to
    plaster, daub
    Derived form: noun mortar2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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