orts

Noun

ort (plural orts)

1. (plural-normally) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
   • […]the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of...1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   bit, gubbins, leftover, scrap, remnant, garbage

2. (historical) A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
   • ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.1872, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms ..., page 268

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