mort

Noun (1)

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
   • 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, Terence Hanbury White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)
2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
   • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...
3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
4. A variety of dummy whist for three players.
5. The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.

Noun (2)

mort (plural morts)

1. A great quantity or number.
   • a mort of water1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 63, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
   • Full o’ sut this chimney is. Ain’t been swep’ for a mort o’ years I reckon.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

Noun (3)

mort (plural morts)

1. (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.

Noun (4)

mort (plural morts)

1. A three-year-old salmon.

Noun (5)

mort (plural morts)

1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
   • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed
   • "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[…].1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales

   Synonyms:

   woman

Proper noun capitalized: Mort

IPA/mɔː(ɹ)t/

Mort (plural Morts)

1. A surname.
2. A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.