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Mortar vs Mortarless - What's the difference?

mortar | mortarless |

As a noun mortar

is .

As an adjective mortarless is

without mortar.

mortar

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding bricks and stones.
  • (countable, military) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
  • (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

    • Derived terms

    * mortarboard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
  • To fire a mortar (weapon)

    • Related terms

    * bricks and mortar

    See also

    * gun * howitzer ----

    mortarless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without mortar.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Ethan Todras-Whitehill, title=Touring the Spirit World, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Sites built by ancient civilizations whose construction techniques are not settled fact — like Stonehenge and the perfectly fitting but mortarless walls of the Inca at Machu Picchu , as well as the pyramids — are embraced as evidence that those civilizations had mystical powers. }}