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• morter (archaic)

語源

From 中期英語 morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

名詞

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

1. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
   • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

     The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

2. (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

   Synonyms: mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar

3. (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
4. (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. [from 20th c.]
5. (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

派生語

派生した語

• → Indonesian: mortar

動詞

mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)

1. (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
2. (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
3. To fire a mortar (weapon).
4. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

   The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

派生語

関連する語

• bricks and mortar

参考

• gun
• howitzer

アナグラム

• marrot