corer

American  

[kawr-er, kohr-] / ˈkɔr ər, ˈkoʊr- /

noun

corers plural

1. a person or thing that cores.

2. a knife or other instrument for coring apples, pears, etc.

3. a device having a hollow cylindrical drill or tube, used for taking samples of earth, rock, etc., from below the surface of the ground or ocean bottom.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• corers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of corer

First recorded in 1790–1800; core ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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corer corers

Using a spoon or corer, remove the flesh in a channel from the zucchini and squash and chop the flesh.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2021

A 35-foot-long missile called a piston corer would plunge under its own weight all the way to the seafloor, land with great force and suck in a long, thick cylinder of mud.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017

So we came back in spring 2014, with Dave Orwig, a master tree corer at the Forest, to bore deep into the oak.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2017

The Blackhawks forced OT when Jonathan Toews stuffed the puck into the right corer on a power play with 38.5 seconds left in the third period.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2011

Take out cores with apple corer or sharp knife.

From The Mary Frances Cook Book Adventures Among the Kitchen People by Fryer, Jane Earye

But if you’ve ever walked through Sur La Table and marveled at the strawberry corers and avocado slicers, you know they can also be a little ridiculous.

From The Verge ● Oct. 9, 2018

Tin is used, however, for such small articles as measures, cutters, apple corers, sieves, strainers, and other things of this kind, and it is especially desirable for them.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

We equipped them with apple parers, corers and slicers and set them to work in the basement of the haymaker.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)