Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ort \Ort\, n.; pl. {Orts}. [Akin to LG. ort, ortels, remnants of
   food, refuse, OFries. ort, OD. oorete, ooraete; prob. from
   the same prefix as in E. ordeal + a word akin to eat.]
   A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used
   in the plural. --Milton.

         Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave. --Shak.