Definition of "sorb" []

• To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption. (verb-transitive)
• Any of several Old World trees of the genus Sorbus in the rose family, as the service tree or the rowan. (noun)
• The fruit of any of these plants. (noun)

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• "Typhoid epizootic sorb increased depends upon srm-rhotard vaccine."
• "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."
• "Who begat Gayoffo, whose ballocks were of poplar, and his pr ... of the service or sorb-apple-tree;"