mortar

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
2. (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
3. To fire a mortar (weapon).
4. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

Sinonieme

plaster

cement

lime

trench mortar

howitzer

mud

clay

pounding pot

stucco

pounding mortar

grout

gun

🔫

gypsum

hammer

🔨

marl

minethrower

mire

ooze

parget

pestle

pounder

puddle

quicklime

silt

slab

slime

slosh

sludge

stovepipe

whitewash

grinding stone

mine thrower

mill-stone

compo

triturator

quick-lime

apothecary’s mortar

be bound with cement

do cement work

acetabulum

plaster with mortar

cotyle

mortar box

sand pulp

plaster of lime and ashes

alluvium

bond

calcinate

calcium oxide

cannon

Vertalings

mortier

Mörser

mortero

mortaio

Mörtel

morter

mortier

morteiro

malta

argamassa

vijzel

calcina

mortel

γουδί

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: morter

In summary

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