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Definition of Mort cloth

Mort cloth
Mort Mort, n. [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.] 1. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. 2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. --Sir W. Scott. 3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. --Carlyle. Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] --H. Taylor.

Meaning of Mort cloth from wikipedia

- A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak),...
- Buried on 1st Nov. in second Mort cloth, for which the cost was 5 shillings". The use of a second quality mort-cloth would indicate that the family...
- Killer Instinct, was based on Mesrine's autobiographical book L'instinct de mort, while the second part, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, detailed Mesrine's...
- Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (French: Un con****é à mort s'est échappé ou Le Vent souffle où il veut), is a 1956 French prison film...
- the ground. If a fire is to be lit by sparks rather than matches, char cloth, punkwood, fungus or down are commonly used to catch the sparks. However...
- 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-19. "Scandinaves ********inées au Maroc : peine de mort confirmée pour les trois auteurs" (in French). 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31...
- visits the catacombs, a sign above reads Arrête! C'est ici l'empire de la Mort ("Stop! The empire of Death lies here"). The Catacombs of Paris became a...
- front of the curtain during their shows, like early 20th century "front cloth" stand-up comics in Britain and Ireland whose numbers allowed the stage...
- Industry December 15, 1933 499 6507 Code of Fair Competition for the Hair Cloth Manufacturing Industry December 15, 1933 500 6508 Code of Fair Competition...
- held up by smaller angels at each side. Christ is naked down to a loin-cloth and his wounds are visible. But there are many variants of this composition...