I. ˈgō(ə)r, -ȯ(ə)r, -ōə, -ȯ(ə) noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gor; akin to Old High German gor dung, Old Norse gor cud, Old English gearu ready — more at yare
1. now dialect Britain : a caked mass of filth or dirt of any kind
2.
a. : blood ; especially : thick or clotted blood
sacrificial altars stained with gore
b. archaic : a pool or mass of blood
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gāra; akin to Old English gār spear, Old High German gēr spear, gēro wedge-shaped object, Old Norse geirr spear, geiri gore, Old Irish gae spear, Greek chaios shepherd's staff, Sanskrit hesas missile
1.
a. : a small usually triangular piece of land
the narrow lots, the gores and dead ends that invite congestion — A.L.Guérard
b. : a relatively small unassigned or disputed tract of land lying between larger political divisions (as townships)
c. : a minor unorganized and usually sparsely settled or uninhabited part of a county (as in Maine and Vermont)
2.
a.
(1) : a tapering or triangular piece of cloth
(2) : one of several flared lengthwise sections of a garment (as a skirt)
b. : gusset 1c (1)
3.
a. : one of the triangular pieces of the covering of a dome, umbrella, balloon, or similar object
b. : one of the series of related sections of a map that is applied to the surface of a sphere in the making of a terrestrial globe
4. : a heraldic bearing imagined as two curved lines drawn respectively from the sinister or dexter chief and from the lowest point of the shield to meeting in the fess point
III. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to cut into a tapering triangular form : provide (a skirt) with a gore
IV. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English goren, probably from gore, gare spear, from Old English gār — more at gore II
1. : to pierce or penetrate with a pointed instrument
gore herself with a kitchen knife — Henry Jordan
2. : to pierce or wound with the horns or tusk
before the bull can gore the man on the ground — Barnaby Conrad