gore

Definitions

1. 1.Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.
2. 2.A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
3. 3.A small traingular piece of land. Cowell.
4. 4.(Her.) 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.
5. 5.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.
6. 6.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 (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton called?
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• What is a small traingular piece of land. Cowell called?
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• What is to cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron called?