Portion of food, condiment or sauce that is prepared at once in the mortar.; Portion of stones or other projectiles that were fired at once with the mortar / mortar and pestle.; Injury and damage caused by the mortar shot.; mint, bundle, (UK) packet, an arm and a leg (large amount of money)
mortar (a relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories); mortar, mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar (a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle); mortar (a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks)
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mosca, muerta.; two-faced cow, two-faced bitch; to look like butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth