▪ I. cored, ppl. a.
(kɔəd)
[f. core v., n.1 + -ed.]
1. With the core taken out; as ‘a cored apple’.
| 1912 Daily Chron. 11 Mar., Peaches and cored apples from California. |
2. Placed in or occupying the inmost part.
| c 1825 Beddoes Poems 89 The cored sleep of sleep, tranquillity. |
3. Founding. Moulded with a core.
| 1865 Tylor Early Hist. Man. viii. 205 The little bronze bells..are cored castings. |
4. [f. the n.] Affected with ‘core’ or ‘cores’ (see core n.1 3 c).
| a 1722 Lisle Husb. 395 They look on a sheep's eye to see whether it be cored or not. Ibid., 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. |
▪ II. cored
(herrings): see corved.