corer
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈkɔːrər/
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sacacorazones
- She used a corer to prepare the apples for her delicious homemade cider.
Examples
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A good corer makes it easy to remove the apple's core without damaging the fruit.
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But after four years of putting in my pie-making shifts—manning the apple corer for 4 hours, serving in the pie dough line, or getting in the occasional late-night food fight—
Blog text (3) -
When I make the mini-version of filled cupcakes, I freeze them, and while they are still frozen, I use an apple corer to cut a hole in the middle.
Blog text (2) -
"I always declare my profession when I travel," she confided cheerfully, displaying a thin, longish jackknife and a set of tools that looked something like apple corers.
Academic text (1993) -
To make the pie, you will need a corer to take out the center of the apples.
Synonyms
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7.4
A small hand tool that removes stems and cores from soft fruit like strawberries
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Corer comes from core, a word that once meant 'heart', plus the ending -er that means 'a tool or person that does something'. So a corer is simply the tool that takes out the 'heart' or inner part of a fruit, which is why we use it to remove apple cores.