A sailor’s term, meaning “in abundance.” (Irish, go leor, in abundance.)
For his Poll he had trinkets and gold galore,
Besides of prize-money quite a store.”
Jack Robinson.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.