mortar n.
1. the vagina; cits. 1719, c.1750 are double entendres.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 237: A Vision too I had of old, / That thou a Mortar wert of Gold! / Then cou’d I but the Pestle be, / [...] / Oh! how I wou’d pound my Spice in thee. | |
| ‘The Proud Pedlar’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 54: The mortar was your own Lady’s, but the pestle was my own. | |
| Honest Fellow [as 1719]. | |
| ‘The Ladies Doctor’ in Secret Songster 28: When I only get into their mortar, / With my pestle I hammer away. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. butter.
| Flash Mirror 20: Small conductor and mortar two win. |
In compounds
1. a prostitute.
| Mercurius Democritus 24-31 May 26: Then Mourn you wanton Morter-pieces all, / This is a Signal of your total fall. | |
| Strange Newes 2: Bette. They may be as well brass’d as any Mortar-piece that was in St Jameses Fair . |
2. the anus.
| Laughing Mercury 25 Aug. - 8 Sept. 175: [She] let such a Bum-cracke that with the winde of her Morter-piece she blew down London-bridge. |
3. a wife.
| Mercurius Democritus 31 May-7 June 38: The poor contented soul his own Morter-piece comming before the Justice gave her verdict that she [i.e. a prostitute] was an honest Vertuous woman. | |
| Mercurius Democritus 22 May 6: He would not do his druggery in the Antipodes of his own Morter-piece . |