mortar

mortar /mor·tar/ (mor´ter) a bell- or urn-shaped vessel in which drugs are beaten, crushed, or ground with a pestle.

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mor·tar (môrtr)

n.

1. A vessel in which drugs or other substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.

2. A machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed.

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mortar

1. wooden or ceramic vessel with a rounded internal surface, used with a pestle, for reducing a solid to a powder or producing a homogeneous mixture of solids.

2. a material used to cement bricks in place.

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mortar licking

a form of pica usually ascribed to a nutritional deficiency of calcium.