mortar

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"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

The workers have carefully recreated this indigenous mortar, once widely used in the Mughal era, but now largely replaced by cement in modern construction.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

And this is not some archaic cinderblock and mortar contraption: It’s a top-of-the-line, high-tech fabrication.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

“Paint traps moisture, ruins the mortar, weakens and cracks the rock,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

“I hope it’s true,’’ José Arcadio Buendía said, grinding in his mortar the material that had been ground a thousand times and reheated and ground again.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez