• (RP) enPR: tô, IPA: /tɔː/
• (America) enPR: tôr, IPA: /tɔɹ/
• (Scotland) enPR: tōr, IPA: /toːɹ/
• (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) enPR: tōr, IPA: /to(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /toə/, /toː/

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor-, from Proto-Germanic *tuz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dus-.

tore

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
3. (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.

1. simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
2. (now, colloquial, nonstandard) Past participle of tear
   • 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC ↗, page 71 ↗:

     Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby […]

See torus.

tore (plural tores)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of torus
2. (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
3. The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

tore (uncountable)

1. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC ↗:

     the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do

1. A village in Highland, Scotland.