mart

mart
mart1
/mahrt/, n.
1. market; trading center; trade center.
2. a building, center, or exposition for the sale of goods by manufacturers and wholesalers to retail merchants.
3. Archaic. a fair.
4. Obs. bargain.
[1400-50; late ME < MD mar(c)t MARKET]
mart2
/mahrt/, n. Scot. and North Eng.
a cow or ox fattened for slaughter.
[1300-50; ME < ScotGael; cf. MIr mart ox or cow slaughtered for meat, carcass, hence a live ox or cow]

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