Eprouvette vs. Mortar: What's the Difference?

Eprouvette and Mortar Definitions
Eprouvette
A one-piece, fixed-elevation mortar formerly used to test the strength of gunpowder.
Mortar
A vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.
Eprouvette
An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.
Mortar
A machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed.
Mortar
A portable, usually muzzleloading cannon used to fire shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high trajectories.
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Mortar
A shell fired by such a cannon.
Mortar
Any of several similar devices, such as one that shoots life lines across a stretch of water.
Mortar
A short, usually stationary, muzzleloading cannon used from the 1700s to early 1900s to fire large round shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high trajectories.
Mortar
Any of various bonding materials used in masonry, surfacing, and plastering, especially a mixture of cement or lime, sand, and water that hardens in place and is used to bind together bricks or stones.
Mortar
To bombard with mortar shells.
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Mortar
To plaster or join with mortar.
Mortar
(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
Mortar
(countable) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
Mortar
(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
Mortar
(countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
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Mortar
(transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
Mortar
(transitive) To pound in a mortar.
Mortar
To fire a mortar (weapon).
Mortar
To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
Mortar
A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
Mortar
A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45°, and even higher; - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
Mortar
A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; - used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
Mortar
A chamber lamp or light.
Mortar
To plaster or make fast with mortar.
Mortar
A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
Mortar
Used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
Mortar
A bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
Mortar
Plaster with mortar;
Mortar the wall