blore

• IPA^(key): /blɔː(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

From Middle English bloren, variation of bleren, blaren, from Old English *blǣran, *blārian (“to blare, bellow, cry”). More at blare.

blore (third-person singular simple present blores, present participle bloring, simple past and past participle blored)

1. (archaic, dialectal) To cry; cry out; weep.
2. (archaic, dialectal) To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.

Perhaps from blore above, a variant of blare, affected by blow. Compare also Gaelic and Irish blor (“a loud noise”).

blore (plural blores)

1. (obsolete) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     a most tempestuous blore

     The spelling has been modernized.

• Boler, Borel, Robel, Roble, roble