tore

comparative more tore · superlative most tore · alternative tor

1. dialectalobsoleteHard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
2. dialectalobsoleteStrong, sturdy; great, massive.
3. dialectalobsoleteFull; rich.

1. pastsimple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
2. colloquialnonstandardparticiplepastpast participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)

   "Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper[…]

   1999 May 11, Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 393

   2 more examples

   […]that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c[…]

   1661, George Whitehead, Edward Burroughs, The Son of Perdition Revealed […] , London, page 39

   Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby[…]

   1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 71

plural tores

1. alternativearchitectureAlternative form of torus.
2. geometrytorus
3. The solid enclosed by a torus

   Synonyms: anchor ring

1. obsoleteuncountableThe dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

   the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do

   1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

1. A village in Highland, Scotland.