| 单词 | pit mortar |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspit mortar pit mortar n. now historical (a) a large mortar (mortar n.1) formed by excavating a hollow in the ground; spec. one used in papermaking for grinding material to a smooth pulp; (b) regional sticky gravel used as mortar (mortar n.2). ΚΠ 1698 J. Houghton in Coll. for Improvem. Husbandry & Trade (1727) II. ccclviii. 420 Thus prepared, 'tis fit for the pit-mortar, which has flat hammers without nails. Into this by a trough runs water continually. 1750 Wonders Nature & Art II. 50 The Mass being beaten a third time.., it is thereby fitted for the Pit-Mortar, where it is perfectly dissolved, and is then carried to the Vat to be form'd into Paper. 1892 Archaeol. Jrnl. 49 155 The remains of circular foundations composed of small field-stones concreted with sticky gravel, termed in the midland counties ‘pit mortar’. 1957 H. E. Driver & W. C. Massey Compar. Stud. N. Amer. Indians vi. 239 Pit mortars in the ground..were used to mash mesquite pods and juniper berries, and around the western Great Lakes for hulling wild rice. 1997 L. A. Reilly Archit. Hist. Peterborough Cathedral ii. 30 (note) The 14th-cent. lantern walls consisted of a thin facing of Barnack stone with rubble and ‘pitmortar’. < as lemmas |
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