Ort

/ɔːt/ · noun

Meaning

(usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse..

Definitions by Sense

1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
2. (historical) A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
3. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

Example Sentences

[…]the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.

Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.

Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.

ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.

The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]

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• orts
• orting
• orted

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