Definition
orts
noun
- scraps or remnants of food left at a meal
Usage: usually plural; archaic or literary
Examples
- The servants collected the orts from the banquet table.
- Dogs were fed the orts from the kitchen.
- She saved the orts to make broth the next day.
- The beggar was grateful for the orts offered by the innkeeper.
- Medieval households rarely wasted orts; they were given to animals or the poor.