It was abandoned by 1883, but was still used as a mortary church.
Also, the forensic doctor believed that the body had been cleaned before Ted was laid out in a mortary position.
Under the mortary layer, a chalk surface with a semi-circular raised concrete edge was revealed.
The work had a special smell: a mingling of damp mortary earth, the sweet and sour scents of freshly-sawn wood and scorched metal, and newly-poured concrete.
The cobblestones were sparser here and frost and mud had mixed into a mortary cement around them, freezing prints of shoes and hooves into a miniature landscape of ridges and valleys.
Definition of mortary in US English:
mortary
adjective
See mortar
Example sentencesExamples
The cobblestones were sparser here and frost and mud had mixed into a mortary cement around them, freezing prints of shoes and hooves into a miniature landscape of ridges and valleys.
The work had a special smell: a mingling of damp mortary earth, the sweet and sour scents of freshly-sawn wood and scorched metal, and newly-poured concrete.
It was abandoned by 1883, but was still used as a mortary church.
Under the mortary layer, a chalk surface with a semi-circular raised concrete edge was revealed.
Also, the forensic doctor believed that the body had been cleaned before Ted was laid out in a mortary position.