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  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ort  \Ort\,  n.;  pl  {Orts}.  [Akin  to  LG  ort,  ortels  remnants  of 
  food,  refuse,  OFries  ort,  OD  oorete  ooraete  prob.  from 
  the  same  prefix  as  in  E.  ordeal  +  a  word  akin  to  eat.] 
  A  morsel  left  at  a  meal;  a  fragment;  refuse;  --  commonly  used 
  in  the  plural.  --Milton. 
 
  Let  him  have  time  a  beggar's  orts  to  crave.  --Shak. 




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