Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cry; cry out; weep; bray; bellow.
  • noun The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
  • verb archaic to bleat like an animal

Etymologies

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Perhaps a variant of blare, or compare Gaelic and Irish blor a loud noise.

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Examples

  • Then the blore of the trumpeting wind was answered by a counter fugue from the sea, with a roll and pound of breakers across the sand of the traverse.

    Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

  • MY OPINION: an average performance but hoping to get through on the basis of the 55\% weightage for CAT score Re: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI ExperiencesRe: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI ExperiencesMy GDPI exp in blore.

    unknown title 2009

  • Beld, there are tons of brainwashed terrorists salivating at the chance of boarding a US based plane and blowing it ... and ihab - the 60-80 percent i quoted was based on blore rates. a 150-200 buck ticket is selling for ...

    NAACHGAANA 2009

  • Hope this may help few who are yet to go for GDPI in blore Re: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI ExperiencesRe: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI Experiencesm not sure but da lady had boycut hair

    unknown title 2009

  • H'bad once second largest in south is now behind blore as

    Latest News Online - Express Indian 2009

  • MY OPINION: an average performance but hoping to get through on the basis of the 55\% weightage for CAT score Re: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI ExperiencesRe: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI ExperiencesMy GDPI exp in blore.

    unknown title 2009

  • Hi all, we plan to travel fm blore to hyd by car. require inputs abt roads fm ppl who have travelled recently?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • Hope this may help few who are yet to go for GDPI in blore Re: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI ExperiencesRe: [2009-2011] IIMK GD / PI Experiencesm not sure but da lady had boycut hair

    unknown title 2009

  • H'bad once second largest in south is now behind blore as

    Latest News Online - Express Indian 2009

  • Susan Kelz Sperling cites three such words: blore (like a sheep), crunkle (like a crane), and winx (like a donkey).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1 1980

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  • This candidate's pitch is  a bore,

    His speech a monotonous snore.

    I like some bluster,

    An old-fashioned guster,

    A blowhard, a windbag, a blore.

    January 17, 2015