mortar
noun
a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle.
mortarless
-
a word derived from
mortar.
Example Sentences
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Near my home, a new building sports a mortarless stone veneer that’s about 1.5 inches thick.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
Without power tools, diamond-blade wet saws or dry-cut abrasive blades attached to a hand-held saw, Egyptians erected mortarless masonry in Giza, home of the great pyramids.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
He and his wife chose to use thin mortarless stone veneer, which she installed herself.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
You don’t have to be a master, though, to apply a mortarless stone veneer.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
It also stands on a high cliff, and its dry and mortarless walls are built also on the coat of the onion principle.
From The South Isles of Aran by Oliver J. Burke
