Definition of "sorb-apple" []

• A European fruit tree, Sorbus domestica, also called the service tree (noun)
• The fruit of this tree, also called the sorb (noun)

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• "He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility."