GORED

Verb

gored

simple past tense and past participle of gore

Adjective

gored (not comparable)

(textiles) Having a gore or gores.

Anagrams

• Rodge, orged, rodge

Source: Wiktionary


GORE

Gore, n. Etym: [AS. gor dirt, dung; akin to Icel. gor, SW. gorr, OHG. gor, and perh. to E. cord, chord, and yarn; cf. Icel. görn, garnir, guts.]

1. Dirt; mud. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

2. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.

Gore, n. Etym: [OE. gore, gare, AS. g angular point of land, fr. g spear; akin to D. geer gore, G. gehre gore, ger spear, Icel. geiri gore, geir spear, and prob. to E. goad. Cf. Gar, n., Garlic, and Gore, v.]

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. Cowell.

3. (Her.)

Definition: 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.

Gore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gored; p. pr. & vb. n. Goring.] Etym: [OE. gar spear, AS. g. See 2d Gore.]

Definition: 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. Coleridge.

Gore, v. t.

Definition: To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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