ort a scrap, a leaving, TIMON OF ATHENS, iv. 3. 397;
“orts,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 2.
156
; JULIUS CAESAR, iv. 1.
37; THE RAPE OF LUCRECE,
985. (The word is seldom found in the singular.
“Orts, Fragmenta, Mensæ
reliquiæ.”
Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.
“Orts, The refuse of hay left in the stall by cattle.”
Craven Dialect.
)