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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Orts

Crumbs; refuse. (Low German, ort- i.e. what is left after eating.)

I shall not eat your orts
- i.e. your leavings.

“Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave.”

Shakespeare: Rape of lucrece.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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