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tors

tors is the plural of tor.

Meaning of tor

Noun

tor (plural tors)

  1. A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock.
    • Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, […]1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 183
  2. (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation.
    • 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.2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse, →ISBN, page 242

Questions about tors

What is tors the plural of?
Tors is the plural of tor.

Words near tors in the dictionary

  1. torrs
  2. Torrumbarry
  3. Torry
  4. Torryburn
  5. Torrys
  6. tors
  7. torsade
  8. torsade de pointes
  9. torsades
  10. torsades de pointe
  11. torsades de pointes

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