Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device for coring apples.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for cutting the core out of fruit: as, an apple-corer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
utensil for removing thecore fromapples and similar fruit or vegetables - noun geology A device used to take core
samples for analysis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device for removing the core from apples
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Examples
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Everyone got to choose a favorite and make a slinky apple from the hand-cranked apple corer machine I brought with me.
Susan Taylor: The Adventurous Produce Section Susan Taylor 2011
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Everyone got to choose a favorite and make a slinky apple from the hand-cranked apple corer machine I brought with me.
Susan Taylor: The Adventurous Produce Section Susan Taylor 2011
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Apple corer or small knife to hollow out the core of the apple
Laura Kumin: Baked Apples: Easy and In Season Baked Fruit Treat Laura Kumin 2011
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Use a spoon or apple corer to carve out the center core of each ring.
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Everyone got to choose a favorite and make a slinky apple from the hand-cranked apple corer machine I brought with me.
Susan Taylor: The Adventurous Produce Section Susan Taylor 2011
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Apple corer or small knife to hollow out the core of the apple
Laura Kumin: Baked Apples: Easy and In Season Baked Fruit Treat Laura Kumin 2011
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Everyone got to choose a favorite and make a slinky apple from the hand-cranked apple corer machine I brought with me.
Susan Taylor: The Adventurous Produce Section Susan Taylor 2011
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And if you own a food mill, you don't need to bother with peeling the apples, just run them through one of those six-slice apple slicer/corer thingys and then you can run the cooked apple sauce through the food mill to strain out the peels and mush up the last bits of apple.
Rain makes ancho chile applesauce | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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I used an apple corer to get the pit out while accenting the "doughnut."
Steve Poses: On the Table: Farm Stands of Northern Chester & Montgomery Counties, PA 2010
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I used an apple corer to get the pit out while accenting the "doughnut."
Steve Poses: On the Table: Farm Stands of Northern Chester & Montgomery Counties, PA 2010
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