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ort

  [awrt]
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–noun
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME; c. LG ort, early D oorete; cf. OE or- out-, ǣt food (see eat )
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ort   (ôrt)   
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; see ud- in Indo-European roots + eten, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]
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