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Definition of Mortarboard

1. Noun. A square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar.

2. Noun. An academic cap with a flat square with a tassel on top.

Definition of Mortarboard

1. Noun. A square board, with a handle, on which mortar or plaster is carried: a hawk. ¹

2. Noun. An academic cap that has a flat square top with a tassel ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mortarboard

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortarboard

mortalities mortality mortality rate mortality table mortalize mortalized mortalizes mortalizing mortall mortally

mortalness mortals mortar mortar fire mortar kidney mortarboard (current term) mortarboards mortared mortaria mortaring

mortarium mortarless mortarlike mortarman mortarmen mortars mortary mortbell mortbells mortgagable

Literary usage of Mortarboard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seasonal Bulletin Boards by Jill Norris (2001)
"Cut a parallelogram of black paper for the mortarboard. Make a tassel of braided yarn and ... Pin or staple the head, mortarboard, and robe in place. 6. ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1898)
"... life' and that The mortarboard must win friends for itself, if for no other reason, because it bears her face upon its opening page."—The mortarboard. ..."

3. An American at Oxford by John Corbin (1902)
"whom he very much resembled, and whenever he wanted to go out, he would tilt his mortarboard forward, wrap his gown high about his neck, as it is usually ..."

4. College and the Future by Richard Ashley Rice (1915)
"whenever he wanted to go out, he would tilt his mortarboard forward, ... As for the mortarboard and gown, undergraduate opinion rather requires that they be ..."

5. The College Girl of America and the Institutions which Make Her what She is by Mary Caroline Crawford (1904)
"I always pay my dues and do it solely of my own accord, I laugh at all the jokes in that absurdity, the mortarboard, In view of which I'm sure you ..."

6. The College Girl of America and the Institutions which Make Her what She is by Mary Caroline Crawford (1904)
"I always pay my dues and do it solely of my own accord, I laugh at all the jokes in that absurdity, the mortarboard, In view of which I'm sure you will not ..."

7. Specimens of Exposition and Argument by Milton Oswin Percival, Robert Archibald Jelliffe (1908)
"He had a brother in Trinity whom he very much resembled, and whenever he wanted to go out, he would 5 tilt his mortarboard forward, wrap his gown high about ..."

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