mortar
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“I love that place beyond all good sense. It’s not just bricks and mortar to me.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
While trimming back Valerie's hedges and clearing brambles, the 24-year-old spotted a rusted, 50cm device that looked "almost like a mortar stood up on its tail".
From BBC • May 28, 2026
"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
Accordingly, in the White House video, a +100 integer flashes on-screen when a mortar shell connects with its target, as if the president himself were landing trick shots on his Twitch stream.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
On the morning of January 21,1970, Scruggs was in one of the mortar pits getting ready to clean his gun when a truck loaded with unused 81mm mortars pulled in to a nearby pit.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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