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Gore   /gɔr/   Listen
noun
Gore  n.  
1.
Dirt; mud. (Obs.)
2.
Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.


Gore  n.  
1.
A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
2.
A small traingular piece of land.
3.
(Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point. Note: It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture called tenné. Like the other abatements it is a modern fancy and not actually used.


verb
Gore  v. t.  (past & past part. gored; pres. part. goring)  To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. "The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet."


Gore  v. t.  To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.





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"Gore" Quotes from Famous Books



... covered with gore and dust-his eyes bloodshot, his cheek haggard and hollow, his locks blanched with sudden age-in the hall of the tower, where the women, half ...
— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book IV. • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... thy head, Tears of burning sorrow shed, Earth! and be by Pity led To Love's fold; Ere they block the very door With lean corpses of the poor, And will hush for naught but gore, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... first to act. The armed-ship resolution, forbidding Americans to travel on such craft, was introduced by Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, who thus explained his purpose ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
... pantings shake His vast and laboring frame. At length, accoutred as he stood, Headlong he plunged into the flood. The yellow flood the charge received, With buoyant tide his weight upheaved, And cleansing off the encrusted gore, Returned him to his friends once more. CONINGTON, AEneid, ...
— Story of Aeneas • Michael Clarke
... partant pour la Syrie. Now they have got there, with a mandate from the Supreme Council, and have come into collision with the Arabs. As we are the friends of both parties the situation is a little awkward. Mr. ORMSBY-GORE hoped we were not going to fight our Arab allies, and was supported by Lord WINTERTON, who saw service with them during the War. A diplomatic speech by Mr. BONAR LAW, who pointed out that the French were in Syria on just ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920 • Various


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