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1. mortar
verb. ['ˈmɔrtɝ'] plaster with mortar.
Synonyms
Etymology
- mortier (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
- mortarium (Latin)
Rhymes with Mortar
- transporter
- fourthquarter
- thirdquarter
- mcwhorter
- exporter
- supporter
- reporter
- importer
- snorter
- sortor
- sorter
- shorter
- quarter
- puerto
- porter
- morter
- horter
- gorter
- courter
- corter
How do you pronounce mortar?
Pronounce mortar as ˈmɔrtər.
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Sentences with mortar
1. Noun, singular or mass
Continue to strike the mortar and break it off the wall or floor.
2. Verb, base form
You won't have to mortar together the blocks.
Quotes about mortar
1. Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
- Mother Teresa
2. When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
- Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
3. Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.
- Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
2. mortar
noun. ['ˈmɔrtɝ'] a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- mortier (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
- mortarium (Latin)
3. mortar
noun. ['ˈmɔrtɝ'] used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall.
Synonyms
Etymology
- mortier (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
- mortarium (Latin)
4. mortar
noun. ['ˈmɔrtɝ'] a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle.
Etymology
- mortier (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
- mortarium (Latin)