mortar

1. 1.

   plaster with mortar

   “mortar the wall”

   Broaderplaster

   masonry

Other forms of mortar

plural

mortars·

past tense

mortarred·

present participle

mortarring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mortar

What does mortar mean?

mortar means "a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mortar?

mortar has 2 syllables: mor-tar. The stress falls on "mor". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹtɚ/.

What is another word for mortar?

Close synonyms include howitzer, trench mortar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mortar a common word?

mortar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.