MEANING
A workable mixture that hardens to bond bricks or stones and fill the joints between them.
Use it for
masonry joints; wall repairs; structural wearMake the spaces binding stones or bricks as visible as the units themselves.
Words that belong together
- lime mortar
- fresh mortar
- crumbling mortar
On the page
Fresh mortar squeezed from the joint beneath the new brick.
She rubbed a loose grain of mortar between her fingers.
The stones remained sound, but the mortar had begun to crumble.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- mortar
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. May use cement or lime as binder; not the whole material called concrete. Other noun senses include a vessel and a weapon. Mass noun in construction. Secondary verb: mortar, mortars, mortared, mortared, mortaring.
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