Mortar definition of mortar by The Free Dictionary
The course of meat finished, they spread upon the sheepskins a great heap of parched acorns, and with them they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been made of this while the horn was not idle, for it went round so constantly, now full, now empty, like the bucket of a waterwheel, that it soon drained one of the two wineskins that were in sight.