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mortar(2) (iou) and Clark, George Rogers (sh)


mortar(2) (iou)



mortar noun2 & verb2. ME.
[Anglo-Norman morter = Old & mod. French mortier (see MORTAR noun1 & verb1) with transference of meaning from the vessel to the substance produced in it, as already in Latin.]
A. noun.
A mixture of lime or cement and sand mixed with water, used in building to bond stone and brick. Also, any of various Other materials with the same use. ME.
bricks and mortar: see BRICK noun.
Plaster etc. used to face brick, stone, wood, etc. LME.
b. verb trans. Fix, join, or plaster with mortar. LME.
mortarless adjective M17.
mortary adjective of the Nature of mortar, consisting of mortar E19.

Clark, George Rogers (sh)




born Nov. 19, 1752, Albemarle county, Va.
died Feb. 13, 1818, near Louisville, Ky., U.S.

Frontier military leader in the American Revolution.

The brother of William Clark, he worked as a surveyor in Kentucky in the mid-1770s. During the Revolution he raised troops and defended the region against the British and Indians. He captured settlements along the Mississippi River in the Old Northwest (Illinois), and in 1780 he helped defeat a British attempt to capture St. Louis. Appointed an Indian commissioner, he helped conclude a treaty with the Shawnee. In 1793 he became involved in the Citizen Genet Affair.