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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mortar .
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Examples
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The chimney had been "mortared," the doghouse erected and the roof dusted with "snow."
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TET began, our base, Dong Tam, was rocked and/or mortared approx.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Mohamad bought a package of Turkish cookies, puffy biscuits mortared together with a sugary pink paste.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Shaded by a droopy live oak tree and splotched with moss clinging to its mortared block walls, it looked dropped there from some ancient time, seeming all the more out of place with asphalt crowding it on three sides.
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The truck rolled up onto a smooth drive made of a flat black rock mortared together and edged by two lines of bricks.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
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Unsourced assertions, wild conjectures and non sequiturs mortared together with homophobia and sexism do not an argument make.
Matthew Yglesias » GOP Turning Pro-Bank Stance Into Big Bucks 2010
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One night in February, he dreamed he was being mortared.
Can Needles Soothe Wounded Warriors? Michael M. Phillips 2011
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Mohamad bought a package of Turkish cookies, puffy biscuits mortared together with a sugary pink paste.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Bagram has been mortared several times since Mr. Graves arrived in November.
In Afghanistan, the War on Jirds Is Actually Going Pretty Well Michael M. Phillips 2011
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The group mortared the prime minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street, bombed Harrods department store in London, and blew up a boat carrying the 79-year-old Lord Mountbatten, cousin of the queen and a daring World War II commander.
Peter King, IRA supporter and enthusiastic counter-terrorism advocate 2011
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