vijzel — meaning in English
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English meaning
- mortar noun A paste of sand, water and cement or lime used to bond bricks or stones together.
Senses
vijzel is used for these senses in English:
- Archimedes' screw (engineering) A screwlike device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes, ca. 200 B.C.E., which when twisted inside a cylinder, raises water from a lower level to a higher level, allowing irrigation of fields.
- mortar (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- mortar and pestle A device made up of a bowl (the mortar) and a heavy, blunt object (the pestle), the end of which is used for crushing and grinding ingredients or substances into a fine paste or powder.
mortar — full definition
- noun A paste of sand, water and cement or lime used to bond bricks or stones together.
- noun A small bowl used with a pestle to crush or grind ingredients.
- noun A short-barreled weapon that fires shells high into the air to hit targets at a steep angle.
- verb To attack a target by firing mortar shells at it.