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You might fire off a mortar and it would produce about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a drunken man.

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 Meanings and Examples of MORTAR
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mortar
 n.  vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle; machine in which materials are ground and blended
Classic Sentence:
1  The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
2  You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed Bastille, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
3  Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
4  You might fire off a mortar and it would produce about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a drunken man.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
5  This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the fine, fresh plaster.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN
6  Aramis, not liking to soil his boots with this artificial mortar, apostrophized them rather sharply.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
7  Ben Weatherstaff had seen it done and had himself scraped out mortar from between the bricks of the wall and made pockets of earth for lovely clinging things to grow on.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
9  Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10  The stones are big and roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  He planned to grind the spices in a mortar.
2  It is so difficult to hurt anyone actually in trenches; I think a mortar is the only thing that can do so.
3  One of the posts, Vyselky, was attacked with mortar and sniper fire for half an hour, border guards said.