mort

noun9

1. •
   A great quantity or number.

   • Full o’ sut this chimney is. Ain’t been swep’ for a mort o’ years I reckon. — 1937
2. •
   (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
3. •
   Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.

   • If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. — 1958
4. •
   A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.

   • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. — 1814
5. •
   A variety of dummy whist for three players.
6. •
   The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
7. •
   A three-year-old salmon.
8. •
   (dialect, UK) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
9. •
   (UK, no longer used) A woman; a female.

   • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. — 1621