ore

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.”

   “Stepnohirsk grew into a town from the village of Sukhoivanivka in the 1980s after vast deposits of manganese ore nearby were discovered.”

2. 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.”

3. (archaic, dialectal, uncountable)Seaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.
4. (historical, uncountable)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 thrid”

5. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of öre.

prep

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of over.

   “When I behold the violet paſt prime, / And ſable curls or ſiluer'd ore with white: […]”

name

1. A suburban area, formerly a village, in Hastings borough, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ8311).
2. A river in Suffolk, England, in two sections; a non-tidal section that joins the River Alde, and a tidal section, a renaming of the Alde parallel to the coast south of Aldeburgh, passing Orford before entering the North Sea.
3. A tributary of the River Leven, Fife council area, Scotland.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Oregon.