mart

noun

1. (Canada, Philippines, US, in-compounds, usually)A shop, a store, a market.

   “FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart”

2. A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.

   “In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.”

   “Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him, And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner: Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret; A man is Maſter of his libertie:”

   “And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.”

   “In London; where has commerce ſuch a mart, So rich, ſo throng'd, ſo drain'd, and ſo ſupplied, As London, opulent, enlarged, and ſtill Increaſing, London?”

   “The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to him who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.”

3. (obsolete)A bargain.

   “Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.”

4. (obsolete)A battle; a contest.
5. (historical, uncountable)A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
6. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
7. (broadly)Salt beef.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.

   “To sell and mart your officer for gold To undeservers.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To traffic.

name

1. A diminutive of the male given name Martin.

   “He looked at me when introduced and said “Mart's boy!” 'I was in fact Martin's grandson, but didn't bother splitting hairs — […]”