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Corer vs Cower - What's the difference?

corer | cower |

As a noun corer

is a utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables.

As a verb cower is

to crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear or cower can be (obsolete|transitive) to cherish with care.

corer

English

Noun

(wikipedia corer) (en noun)
  • A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables
  • (geology) A device used to take core samples for analysis
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    cower

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) kuren or from Scandinavian ((etyl) . Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
  • He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
  • * Dryden
  • Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
  • * Goldsmith
  • Like falcons, cowering on the nest.
    See also
    * coward * cowardice

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cherish with care.
  • (Webster 1913)