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trench mortars

trench mortars is the plural of trench mortar.

Meaning of trench mortar

Noun

trench mortar (plural trench mortars)

  1. A small mortar designed to fire shells from one trench to an enemy trench.
    • The medical captain, ‘What hit you?’ Me, with the eyes shut, ‘A trench-mortar shell.’1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 64
    Synonyms:
    TM, toc emma

Questions about trench mortars

What is trench mortars the plural of?
Trench mortars is the plural of trench mortar.

Words near trench mortars in the dictionary

  1. trench knife
  2. trench knives
  3. trench mentalities
  4. trench mentality
  5. trench mortar
  6. trench mortars
  7. trench mouth
  8. trench plate
  9. trench plates
  10. trench stick
  11. trench sticks

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