Pronunciations (2)
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/mɔːt/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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/mɔɹt/
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword.
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
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- Uncountable
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The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.
The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
Usage- Scotland
- UK usage
- Countable
- dialectal
- Uncountable
A variety of dummy whist for three players.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Noun
A great quantity or number.
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a mort of water
Full o’ sut this chimney is. Ain’t been swep’ for a mort o’ years I reckon.
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1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.
Noun
A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
Usage- Internet
- Informal
Noun
A three-year-old salmon.
Noun
A woman; a female.
Usage- UK usage
- Obsolete
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Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
"Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, who leered at him[…].
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KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) […].
With woman steps she followed: the ruffian and his strolling mort.