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noun

(in a core drill) a length of pipe for holding rock cores while they are being extracted from the drill hole.

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It is a spy series at its core, but you guys never really pull from the headlines.
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A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core.
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Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies.
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One hundred to the right barrel—nothing left for the second barrel!
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It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.
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In the fall the barrel of his rifle had been so covered with dead leaves and dust that he could not take aim.
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The second barrel was discharged with no better result, except that a splinter of its horn was knocked off.
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