noun

• A scrap or remainder of food from a meal.

  ‘The men's job was to operate the sweepers, brushing up the vegetable waste, the paper bags, the scraps and orts of the Market like prairie harvesters.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A waiter wheeled up a trolley of elaborately bedizened scraps, orts, and broken meats.’
  • ‘Meals were individually weighed for each horse , and all orts were collected , weighed , and recorded prior to the next meal.’
  • ‘Dry matter intakes and orts were recorded on a daily basis.’
  • ‘Food intake was calculated daily by subtracting the dried orts ( uneaten food ) from the amount of food offered every day.’

  Synonyms

  debris, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, refuse, litter, scrap, flotsam and jetsam, lumber, rubble, wreckage