"tor" meaning in English

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      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "tore (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "torr (all accents)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "tour (in accents with the pour-poor merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "taw (in non-rhotic accents)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-tor.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/En-au-tor.ogg/En-au-tor.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/En-au-tor.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "tor"
  ],
  "word": "tor"
}