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See Cordovan.]
A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin
tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished,
colored, gilded, or the like.


Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain.

Spenser.


Cord"wain*er (-?r), n. [OE.
cordwaner, cordiner, fr. OF. cordoanier,
cordouanier, F. cordonnier.] A worker in
cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.
[Archaic.]


Core (kōr), n. [F.
corps. See Corps.] A body of individuals; an
assemblage.
[Obs.]


He was in a core of people.

Bacon.


Core, n. [Cf. Chore.]
(Mining.) A miner's underground working time or
shift.
Raymond.


&fist; The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four
cores.


Core, n. [Heb. kōr:
cf. Gr. ko`ros.] A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or
homer.
Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).


Core, n. [OF. cor,
coer, cuer, F. cœur, fr. L.
cor heart. See Heart.] 1.


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