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mortar

English

  1. 🔊 a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
  2. 🔊 a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
  3. 🔊 used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
  4. 🔊 plaster with mortar
    “mortar the wall”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pilón mortar
  2. 🔊 argamasa mortar, cement (material)
  3. 🔊 mortero mortar, mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar (a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle)

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