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Trench mortar   /trɛntʃ mˈɔrtər/   Listen
Trench mortar

noun
1.
A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.  Synonyms: howitzer, mortar.






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"Trench mortar" Quotes from Famous Books



... are shown all the devices which a year of experience has suggested to the quick brains of our Allies. It is ground upon which one cannot talk with freedom. Every form of bomb, catapult, and trench mortar was ready to hand. Every method of cross-fire had been thought out to an exact degree. There was something, however, about their disposition of a machine gun which disturbed the Commandant. He called for the officer of the gun. His thin lips got thinner and his grey eyes more austere ...
— A Visit to Three Fronts • Arthur Conan Doyle



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