Alternative form of torus
"The mower left a thick layer of tore across the field where the frost had kept the blades brittle all winter."
The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
simple past tense of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
"He tore through the finish line just as the clock struck midnight."
Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
"The long hike up the mountain was so tore that we barely made it to the summit before giving up."
The word "tore" comes from the Old Norse prefix tor-, which meant "hard, difficult, wrong, or bad." This root traces back to Proto-Germanic and ultimately to a Proto-Indo-European term for something bad or ill.