Mort
[mɔːt]
Definition
(n.) A great quantity or number.
(n.) A woman; a female.
(n.) A salmon in its third year.
(n.) Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
(n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
(n.) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
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Definition
n. (slang) a woman.
n. a great number or amount of anything.
n. death: a flourish sounded at the death of a buck & c. in hunting.
Checker: Merle
Examples
- She might have married well, a mort of times, “but, uncle,” she says to me, “that's gone for ever. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Take dead, _mort_, _muerto_, and _todt_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Silence a la mort, replied Laurie, with a melodramatic flourish, as he went away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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