mort·cloth \ˈmȯrtˌklȯth\noun Etymology: obsolete English mort death (from Middle French, from Latin mort-, mors) + English cloth — more at mortal 1.chiefly Scotland: a funeral pall < let the bedclothes, for a mortcloth, drop into great laps and folds of sculptor's work — Robert Browning > 2.Scotland: money paid for the use of a pall