Tor

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary
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TOAR, sb. Ken. Sur. Sus. Hmp. Also written tore
Ken.2 Sur. Sus.1 Hmp. [toə(r).] 1. Long, coarse grass
remaining in pasture fields in winter and spring; also in
comp. Toar-grass.
Ken. (K.), Ken.1 Ken.2 e.Ken. Tore grass is the old stems between
which cattle and sheep have grazed, of any kind of grass, which
has shed its seed and dried as it stands (H.M.). Sur.1, Sus.1
Hmp. Holloway.
Hence (1) Toar-hay, sb. hay made from toar-grass; (2)
Toary, adj. long, coarse, as toar-grass; full of long, coarse
grass.
(1) e.Ken. If much of it [toar-grass] is left it is sometimes cut as
toar-hay, but is of little value (H.M.). (2) Sur. Some rough ‘torey’
grass which was dotted over with thorn bushes, Forest Tithes
(1893) 180; Sur.1 There's bin a fox in that old toary field of mine
for ever so long.
2. Grass and rubbish on corn-land, after the corn is
reaped. Ken. Lewis I. Tenet (1736).