GORGET

noun a ruff worn by women.

2. gorget ·noun a cutting instrument used in lithotomy.

3. gorget ·noun a crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.

4. gorget ·noun a grooved instrunent used in performing various operations;

— called also blunt gorget.

5. gorget ·noun a piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.

6. gorget ·noun a small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.

7. gorget ·noun a piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.