Definition of mortar

"mortar" in the noun sense

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

2. mortar

used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall

3. mortar

a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle

"mortar" in the verb sense

1. mortar

plaster with mortar

"mortar the wall"

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Quotations for mortar

The poetry of bricks and mortar. [ Horace Greeley ]

Right mixture makes good mortar. [ Proverb ]

The apothecary's mortar spoils the luter's music. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nero was wont to say of his master, Seneca, that his style was like mortar without lime. [ Bacon ]

Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. [ Bible ]

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar, is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince. [ Sadi ]

High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well-bedded in good logic mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge. [ Carlyle ]

mortar in Scrabble®

The word mortar is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters mortar:

MORTAR
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word mortar

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mortar in Words With Friends™

The word mortar is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters mortar:

MORTAR
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In mortar

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Words within the letters of mortar

2 letter words in mortar (7 words)

3 letter words in mortar (12 words)

4 letter words in mortar (7 words)

5 letter words in mortar (1 word)

6 letter words in mortar (1 word)

mortar + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence mortar

Words with mortar in them (1 word)

Words that end with mortar (1 word)

Word Growth involving mortar

Shorter words in mortar

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ar tar

ta tar

Longer words containing mortar

mortarboard mortarboards

mortared

mortaring

mortarless

mortarlike

mortarman

mortarmen

mortars