Legal Definitions - wort

Wort is an old-fashioned word that means a farm in the countryside or a small enclosed area around a house.

• My grandparents used to live on a wort in the middle of nowhere.
• The wort was surrounded by fields of wheat and corn.

These examples show that a wort is a type of farm or small area that is located in a rural setting. It is often surrounded by fields and farmland.