local. Also toar (Eng. Dial. Dict.). [Origin unascertained.] Long coarse grass remaining in the field in winter or spring. Also attrib.
1707. Mortimer, Husb. (1721), I. 234. Which you must proportion according to the quantity of Rowen or Tore that you have upon the Ground; The more Tore you have, the less quantity of Hay will do. Ibid. When your Tore is quite eaten up, which it will commonly be about February, you must house your Milch-Cows, that you give Hay to in your Cow-house all Night.
1766. Compl. Farmer, Tore, rowen, or winter-grass.
1836. Sir G. Head, Home Tour, 253. I found fields over-run with coarse tore grass, in many parts blotchy and covered with thistles.
1904. in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire.
