trench mortar

English

Alternative forms

• trench-mortar

Noun

trench mortar (plural trench mortars)

1. A small mortar designed to fire shells from one trench to an enemy trench.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 64:

     The medical captain, ‘What hit you?’ Me, with the eyes shut, ‘A trench-mortar shell.’

Synonyms

• TM
• toc emma