Mort

Quick meaning: Mort is a noun meaning Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.

Meaning

Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.

More Meanings

1. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
3. (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
4. (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
5. A great quantity or number.
6. (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
7. A three-year-old salmon.

Example Sentences

a mort of water

Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.

Full o’ sut this chimney is. Ain’t been swep’ for a mort o’ years I reckon.

Word Forms

• morts

Synonyms for mort

Depending on context, synonyms include woman.

Antonyms for mort

Common opposites include immort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dying, dead, killing, death, kill, gone.

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