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I won't disturb 'ee, an' if yu hears ort -- well, yu'll know, won '' ee? "

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  1. noun A small scrap or leaving of food after a meal is completed. Often used in the plural.
  2. noun A scrap; a bit.

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  • Nancy Adelman and her team in the Policy Division in SRI's Arlington o ffi ce have initiated a research e ff ort, also in collaboration with JMU, to establish an education research group at SRI-SV. —  Charlottesville Blogs
  • S to ry wa s to o s h ort (a pp e a re d no t fin is h e d) b u t s tu d e n t s h o u ld b e e nc oura g e d to g o fu rth e r with h is a p p ro a c h .. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The U.S. Marshall's office had received a tip that S.ort, a federal fugitive who allegedly has links to a drug cartel in Mexico, was in New Mexico.
  • Planting and gardening is such a tiring e ff ort, the bucket and the plants have human qualities of their own, one might think that the spade's human side is out to lunch .... hoho! —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • 1. SUNDAY Breakfast_: butter 6 ort, coffee 10 ort, sugar 7.5 ort. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English orte, food left by animals, probably from Middle Dutch : oor, out; see ud- in Indo-European roots + eten, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ort, from Anglo-Saxon as if *orǣt (= Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete = Middle Low German Low German ort), what is left after eating, from or-, out, + etan, eat: see or- and eat.
  2. from ort, n.
  3. German ort, Middle High German (later Danish Norwegian) ort, a fourth part, a weight, a coin,=D. oord, a fourth part; the same as G. Middle High German ort, a point, corner, place, region,=OFries. Old Saxon Anglo-Saxon Middle English ord, a point: see ord and odd. The application to money and weight arose from the division of a coin into four quadrants by a cross.
  4. An abbreviation of orientation.
 

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