ore

name

Etymology: * From Old English ora (“edge, stream bank, brink”) * For the river, a back-formation from Orford, Suffolk.

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.

noun

1. Alternative form of öre.

prep

1. Obsolete form of over.

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