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English Dictionary: Orts by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ort \Ort\, n.; pl. {Orts}. [Akin to LG. ort, ortels, remnants of
      food, refuse, OFries. ort, OD. oorete, ooraete; prob. from
      the same prefix as in E. ordeal + a word akin to eat.]
      A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used
      in the plural. --Milton.
  
               Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave. --Shak.
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