ores

Noun (1)

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

1. Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
   • They general­ly occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are call­ed ores.1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY: Continued from No. 12”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102

Noun (2)

ore (plural ores)

1. A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.
   • In the time of Æthelred the Unready when the pound contained 240 pence, the ore was reckoned at 16 pence, but in earlier times there was probably much variation.1956, Peter Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, London; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 295

   Synonyms:

   ora

Noun (3)

ore (uncountable)

1. (archaic, dialectal) Seaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.

Noun (4)

ore (uncountable)

1. (historical) A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
   • But then the ore of Lempſter / By Got is never a Sempſter; / That when he is ſpun, ore did, / Yet match him with hir thrida. 1638 (date written), Ben Jonson, “For the Honour of Wales”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett...

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