frore p ppl, a also fraw, ?froke, vrore, and forms with a-: afrore, etc. [phonetics unavailable]. EDD freeze 3, var frore Ha W Gl D etc, vrore So IW W. Many observers note (a)frore in isolation, but it has been rarely recorded in unselfconscious speech.
    Frozen solid, esp in phr frore over: very cold.
   1863 MORETON 34 Hard a fraw. Frozen, hard frozen. 1895 J A Folklore viii, 29 ~ for froze or frozen. 1907 MILLAIS 339 Frore and froke, for frozen. [1927] 1946 PRATT 213 "The Iron Door": To dim-illumined reaches where the frore, / Dumb faces of despair / Gazed at their natural mirror in the door. 1937 DEVINE 23 The brook is frore over. T 31/2-64 I wasn't frostburned. My mitts were frore onto my hands. My face was frore, my collars was frore an' everything was ballicattered. C 71-112 Frore over is a term used to describe water that has frozen over on the top.

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