corern.
/ˈkɔːrə/, U.S. /ˈkɔrər/ 1. An instrument for taking out the core of fruit.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts
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corer1789
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1789 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) ii. 66 Some carrot..cut round with an apple-corer.
1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. xiv. 240 A patent back-action apple-corer.
2. A drilling device which extracts a core in geological exploration, etc. (see core n.1 4).
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > apparatus
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1927 R. Peele Mining Engineers' Handbk. (ed. 2) ix. 347 Keystone corer..was designed primarily for testing bituminous coal beds.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. xv. 819 The lower part of the range of values for total copper is extended somewhat if older strata sampled by a corer are considered.
1970 Nature 4 Apr. 44/2 The hot salty holes in the Red Sea contain some of the most startling sediments yet described... A corer lowered into them comes back still hot to touch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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