Tor vs Toa - What's the difference?
tor | toa |
A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
(South-West England) A hill.
* 1855 , Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! , Tickor and Fields (1855),
* 1902 , , Chapter 9:
* 2008 , Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night , Signet Eclipse (2008), ISBN 9780451223425,
(UK, dialect) A tower; a turret.
As nouns the difference between tor and toa
is that tor is a craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill while toa is a small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.As an adjective tor
is alternative form of lang=en ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").As an initialism TOR
is Terms of referenceAs a proper noun Tor
is abbreviation of Toronto|lang=en.tor
English
(wikipedia tor)Etymology 1
Etymology 2
From (etyl) tor, ). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also (tower).Noun
(en noun)pages 104-105:
- Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.
- The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
page 242:
- She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors —and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
- (Ray)