Corer vs Cower - What's the difference?
corer | cower |
A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables
(geology) A device used to take core samples for analysis
To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
* Dryden
* Goldsmith
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)Anagrams
*cower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) kuren or from Scandinavian ((etyl) . Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
- Like falcons, cowering on the nest.