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Webster 1913 Edition

Gore

Gore

,
Noun.
[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

,
Noun.
[OE.
gore
,
gare
, AS.
g[GREEK]ra
angular point of land, fr.
g[GREEK]r
spear; akin to D.
geer
gore, G.
gehre
gore,
ger
spear, Icel.
geiri
gore,
geir
spear, and prob. to E.
goad
. Cf.
Gar
,
Noun.
,
Garlic
, and
Gore
,
Verb.
]
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.)
One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
☞ 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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gored
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Goring
.]
[OE.
gar
spear, AS.
g[GREEK]r
. See 2d
Gore
.]
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

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Gore

GORE

,
Noun.
[Gr. from issuing.]
1.
Blood; but generally, thick or clotted blood; blood that after effusion becomes inspissated.
2.
Dirt; mud. [Unusual.]

GORE

, n.
1.
A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part.
2.
A slip or triangular piece of land.
3.
In heraldry, an abatement denoting a coward. It consists of two arch lines, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fess point.

GORE

, v.t.
1.
To stab; to pierce; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear.
2.
To pierce with the point of a horn.
If an ox gore a man or a woman--Ex.21.

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