mortar
noun
a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle.
mortary
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a word derived from
mortar.
Example Sentences
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This alkaline urine deposits its phosphates, which light upon the calculus and encrust it with a mortary shell, which may go on increasing in size until it may even fill the bladder.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
OLD MORTARITY, dinner-kettle in hand and more mortary than ever, indeed seen approaching them with shuffling gait.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 by Various
We are a little mortary and limey at present, but we are getting on capitally.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
