The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MORTAR
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More clues leading to the result MORTAR
- Short cannon’s middle-of-the-road rating
- Mixture used in building gun
- What can destroy wall, or hold bricks together?
- . Artillery item capable of absorbing crushing force?
- River to fill moat damaged by king’s gun firing shells
- Hawk carries this weapon
- Roman’s capsized sailor’s vessel
- Bomb scrap left in ruin
- May help in building a house, or destroying it
- Fatal, having ultimately changed sides to get weapon
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The straight part
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What does MORTAR mean?
MORTAR noun- A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
- A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
- To pound in a mortar.
- To fire a mortar (weapon).