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Definition gore

Etymology 1

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gur? (“half-digested stomach contents; feces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??er- (“hot; warm”).

Noun

gore (uncountable)

1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
3. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth.

Etymology 2

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English g?r (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with the horn.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

Etymology 3

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English g?ra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Noun

gore (plural gores)

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
2. (surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
3. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe
4. 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.
5. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
6. A projecting point.
7. (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. To cut in a triangular form.
2. To provide with a gore.

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