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Dictionary: ort   (ôrt) pronunciation
n.
  1. A small scrap or leaving of food after a meal is completed. Often used in the plural.
  2. A scrap; a bit.

[Middle English orte, food left by animals, probably from Middle Dutch : oor, out + eten, to eat.]


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a morsel left at a meal: scrap
 
 
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