Gore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pierce or stab with a horn or tusk.
  • n. A triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail.
  • n. A small triangular piece of land.
  • v. To provide with a gore.
  • v. To cut into a gore.
  • n. Blood, especially coagulated blood from a wound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Dirt, filth.
  • n. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  • n. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
  • v. To pierce with the horns.
  • n. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
  • n. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.
  • n. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  • n. A projecting point.
  • v. To cut in a triangular form.
  • v. To provide with a gore.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Dirt; mud.
  • n. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
  • n. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
  • n. A small traingular piece of land.
  • n. One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
  • v. To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
  • v. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Dirt; mud. [Prov. Eng.]
  • n. Blood that is shed or drawn from the body; thick or clotted blood.
  • n. A relatively long and narrow triangular strip or slip; a projecting point. Specifically
  • n. A triangular piece or tapering strip of land.
  • n. In Maine and Vermont, and formerly in Massachusetts, an unorganized and thinly settled subdivision of a county.
  • n. A triangular piece or strip of material inserted to make something, as a garment or a sail, wider in one part than in another; especially, in dressmaking, a long triangle introduced to make a skirt wider at the bottom or hem than at the waist. See goring.
  • n. A part of the dress; hence, the dress itself; a garment.
  • n. An angular plank used in fitting a vessel's skin to the frames.
  • n. In heraldry, a charge consisting of two curved lines, one from the sinister chief point, the other from the base middle point, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fesse-point. Also called gusset.
  • To shape like a gore; cut or treat so as to form a gore.
  • To furnish with a gore or gores, as a dress-skirt or a sail.
  • To pierce; penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear or a horn; wound deeply.
  • To scoop; dig.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. coagulated blood from a wound
  • v. wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
  • n. the shedding of blood resulting in murder
  • v. cut into gores
  • n. a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
  • n. Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
  • Verb Form
    gored    gorees    gores    goring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blood    thrust    pierce    murder    execution    slaying    tailor    cut    piece of cloth    piece of material   
    Cross Reference
    under gore   
    Form
    gored    goring    gory   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dirt    mud    blood    stab    pierce    tusk    horn    hook    triangle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boer    Bohr    C4    Dior    Dore    Flore    Fore    Gabor    Igor    Lahore