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Mortar may refer to: *
Mortar (weapon) A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a ...
, an indirect-fire infantry weapon *
Mortar (masonry) Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colors or pa ...
, a material used to fill the gaps between blocks and bind them together *
Mortar and pestle Mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used from the Stone Age to the present day to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. The ''mortar'' () ...
, a tool pair used to crush or grind * Mortar, Bihar, a village in India * Mortar (organization), a nonprofit in Cincinnati, Ohio * The Manby mortar, an invention for rescuing shipwreck survivors


See also

* Mortar methods, discretization methods for partial differential equations *
Mortarboard The square academic cap, graduate cap, cap, mortarboard (because of its similarity in appearance to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar) or Oxford cap is an item of academic dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upo ...
, a type of headwear worn as part of academic dress * Mortar Board, a national honor society for college seniors * * {{disambiguation