mortarless
English
Etymology
mortar + -less
Adjective
mortarless (not comparable)
- Without mortar.
- 2007 April 29, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “Touring the Spirit World”, in New York Times:
- Sites built by ancient civilizations whose construction techniques are not settled fact — like Stonehenge and the perfectly fitting but mortarless walls of the Inca at Machu Picchu, as well as the pyramids — are embraced as evidence that those civilizations had mystical powers.
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