1. a note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer in hunting
Usage: hunting; archaic
2. death or the end of something
Usage: archaic; literary

Examples

• The huntsman sounded the mort when the stag fell.
• In medieval literature, mort often symbolized the end of an era.
• The old tradition of blowing the mort has largely disappeared from modern hunting.
• Shakespeare used mort as a poetic reference to death in his sonnets.