Sleet: alternatives and connections

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body…

See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler…

A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel;…

The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.

The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.