Examples of “mort” in a Sentence

noun Death, especially of an animal killed during a hunt; also the horn call sounded to mark that moment.

• At the end of the hunt, the horns sounded the mort.
• The huntsman blew the mort as the stag went down.
• Old hunting manuals describe several different horn calls, one of which announces the mort.

noun A large quantity or number of something (dialect/informal).

• He ate a mort of pancakes before heading out to the field.
• There was a mort of trouble getting the tractor started.
• She has a mort of cousins scattered across the county.