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countable and uncountable, plural morts
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. quotations 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.
1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, book I (The Sword in the Stone)
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. quotations examples
The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. examples
(card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players. examples
(card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort. examples
A great quantity or number. quotations examples
a mort of water
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 63, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850
As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.
1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham
plural morts
(Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. examples
A three-year-old salmon. examples
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A woman; a female. quotations
Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed
I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]
1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Edward Lumley, published 1840, page 538