Meaning of Mort | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
   countable, uncountable
3. A great quantity or number.
4. A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
   Internet, informal
5. A three-year-old salmon.
6. A woman; a female.
   UK, obsolete
7. A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
8. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
   countable, uncountable
9. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
   Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
10. A variety of dummy whist for three players.
    countable, uncountable
11. The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.”

“a mort of water”

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

“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.”

“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, and both made odd motions backwards and forwards, causing the baskets which hung round them to creak and rustle, and uttering loud shouts of laughter, which roused the echoes of the neighbouring hills.”

“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) and if they have no children of their own they[…]”

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