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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, which literally translates as:...
- 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...
- 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...
- el-****ad Mansour's fight for justice Les prisonniers et disparus, angle mort des négociations de paix intersyriennes Written in Blood and Rust from a...
- show conventional mourning dress. Fortescue bought 1599 1/2 yards of black cloth in seven different qualities. The herald William Dethick arranged the building...
- room where a person tied to a chair and covered in a white cloth is screaming for help. The cloth is removed, revealing a frightened adult Seo-yeon, once...
- 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...