mortar
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈmɔrtər/
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argamasa
- Mortar around the stone is starting to oxidize from the air we're pumping in.
- bricks and mortar
- cement mortar
- lime mortar
His photographs are worlds apart from the brick, the mortar and the metal of confinement.
- His photographs are worlds apart from the brick, the mortar and the metal of confinement.
- What we deliver to people is not, it's not bricks and mortar.
- You know, all you're seeing is locked bolts, bars and mortar.
- And that's pre Internet money that's bricks and mortar.
- But what I will say is that we are AB to B company, so we sell to brick and mortar players.
- This of course, can be done whether it's bricks and mortar or online.
- Yeah, we and we have a brick and mortar that's built on like actual stuff, right.
Examples
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The water tanks have been spackled with fresh mortar and look like new.
Fiction book (1995) -
Otherwise, we just got a bunch of beautiful bricks put together, but we don't have the mortar to cement to keep them in place.
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Not a brick, stone or piece of mortar shall be changed.
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This is bricks and mortar, Frank.
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It's like building bricks with no mortar down there.
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I moved to the window, carrying the mortar with me, and peered out.
Fiction book (1991) -
Between them were thinner slabs, layered and stacked, that functioned as the mortar holding the walls together.
Fiction book (1993) -
The mason carefully mixed the mortar to ensure a strong bond between the bricks.
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Before laying the new stones, make sure to prepare enough mortar for the task.
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To repair the wall, we need to replace the damaged mortar between the bricks.
Compounds
- Archaic
A short gun that fires shells high into the air over short distances in trench fighting
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mortar comes from the old Latin word mortarium, meaning 'bowl for pounding'. People used a bowl like that to mix or crush materials, so the word came to mean the cement paste used to join bricks and stones.