Definitions
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- adjective Not
secured bymortar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The downstairs floors are made of unmortared brick, because Sam liked the sound they made when he walked on them.
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The Romans, it should be noted, had slaves, who presumably built the unmortared stone walls that created narrow terraces of soil in which to plant vines.
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The downstairs floors are made of unmortared brick, because Sam liked the sound they made when he walked on them.
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The downstairs floors are made of unmortared brick, because Sam liked the sound they made when he walked on them.
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The downstairs floors are made of unmortared brick, because Sam liked the sound they made when he walked on them.
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When my fingers detected a slight draft from an unmortared groove, I put my weight against it and pushed with my shoulder.
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When my fingers detected a slight draft from an unmortared groove, I put my weight against it and pushed with my shoulder.
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When my fingers detected a slight draft from an unmortared groove, I put my weight against it and pushed with my shoulder.
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He set to work piling scavenged stones into four unmortared walls on which to hang his blue plastic refugee-camp tarp.
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When my fingers detected a slight draft from an unmortared groove, I put my weight against it and pushed with my shoulder.
bilby commented on the word unmortared
"The two brothers with Sean and the O'Donnell girls reached it by a long winding boreen that threaded its way uncertainly through litle grey rocky fields and walls of unmortared stone which rose against the sky along the edges of the hill like lacework."
- Frank O'Connor, 'Uprooted'.
September 6, 2008