Also 7 chore, kore. [f. CORE sb.1]
1. trans. To take out the core of (fruit).
1597. 2nd Pt. Gd. Hus-wives Jewell, E viij b. Take twelve Quinces, and core them.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 424. Chore such as are to be chored.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 59. Pare, core, and slice your apples.
1890. New York Herald, 19 Jan. A dish of apples … pared, cored and baked with sugar and cinnamon.
† b. To cut out (the core or seed). Obs. rare.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. ii. 117. First pare them and core out the Seed.
† c. To extract the ‘core’ or inner part of (a corn or other swelling). Obs. (Cf. CORE sb.1 3.)
1604. Marston, Malcontent, IV. iii. (Webster). Hee’s like a corne vpon my great toe…: he must be kored out.
d. Building. Also core out. (See quot. 1881.)
1876. Gwilt, Arch., § 2282 b. Turn, parget, and core the chimney flues.
1881. Oxfordsh. Suppl. Gloss., Core out, to clean out [newly built] chimneys, etc., by removing pieces of brick and mortar.
Mod. The chimney would not smoke if it had been properly cored.
2. To enclose in the center, enshrine. (in pass.)
1876. L. Hunt, Rimini, III. 73. So much knowledge of one’s self there lies cored … in our complacencies.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xxi. (1848), 273. In all things animate is therefore cored An elemental sameness of existence.
3. Founding. To mold or cast with a core.
1865. [see CORED 3].
Core (in to core herrings): see CORVED.
† Core, coren, pa. pple. Obs. form of CHOSEN.
For quots. see CHOOSE v. A. 6.
Core, var. COR, Hebrew measure.
Core-, in surgical terms relating to the pupil of the eye: see COR-2.
