coredadj.
/kɔːd/ 1. With the core taken out; as ‘a cored apple’.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [adjective] > cored
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cored1912
1912 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. Peaches and cored apples from California.
2. Placed in or occupying the inmost part.
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the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adjective] > situated in the centre or middle > most central > in the most central or innermost part
coreda1849
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 89 The cored sleep of sleep, tranquillity.
3. Founding. Moulded with a core.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > other states or forms
well-attempereda1460
sheet1582
unstamped1622
unplanished1683
shotten1766
calciform1782
spongy1807
cored1865
glazed1874
stamped1879
unwelded1885
solid-drawn1888
siliconized1920
inoculated1923
deep-drawn1925
stress-relieved1925
projection-welded1933
roll-formed1935
over-aged1953
scalped1958
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind viii. 205 The little bronze bells..are cored castings.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Cored Shot, an elongated projectile having a cavity in the body of it for the purpose of throwing the center of gravity towards the front end of the projectile, thus insuring greater steadiness of flight.
4. [ < core n.1] Affected with ‘core’ or ‘cores’ (see core n.1 3c).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [adjective] > tumour
coreda1722
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 395 They look on a sheep's eye to see whether it be cored or not.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 395 A sheep which is cored, after it has been so a year, will have a water bladder, as big as an egg, under its throat.
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