"When we left Burma to come here, my mother insisted on bringing the heavy stone mortar because it was essential for grinding spices," she said.

An old woman was pounding dried peppers in a huge stone mortar.

Esidio got out the coffee beans and dropped a handful into a stone mortar.

The palace was constructed using stone, brick, lime mortar and devoid of timber.

He watched glassy-eyed as the girl, on her knees, ground the mixture in a stone mortar she had produced from within the armoire.

He also incorporated in his system an anti-personnel stone mortar of 15-inch from the de Vallière system.

She examined an old stone mortar and pestle.

One day, within the first month of her pregnancy, she was husking paddy in the stone mortar.

The name may refer to a stone mortar.

The dried teacake, generally called brick tea was ground in a stone mortar.