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plural orts
(archaic, usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. quotations
[…] the rich ate and drank freely, […] their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40
Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted
(transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse. examples