[syn: bloodshed, gore]
VERB (2)
1. wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument;
2. cut into gores;
- Example: "gore a skirt"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gore \Gore\, n. [OE. gore, gare, AS. g?ra angular point of land,
fr. g?r spear; akin to D. geer gore, G. gehre gore, ger
spear, Icel. geiri gore, geir spear, and prob. to E. goad.
Cf. Gar, n., Garlic, and Gore, v.]
1. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc.,
sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at
a particular part.
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2. A small traingular piece of land. --Cowell.
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3. (Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved
lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
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Note: It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture
called tenn['e]. Like the other abatements it is a
modern fancy and not actually used.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gore \Gore\, n. [AS. gor dirt, dung; akin to Icel. gor, SW.
gorr, OHG. gor, and perh. to E. cord, chord, and yarn; cf.
Icel. g["o]rn, garnir, guts.]
1. Dirt; mud. [Obs.] --Bp. Fisher.
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2. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become
thick or clotted. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gore \Gore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Goring.] [OE. gar spear, AS. g?r. See 2d Gore.]
To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a
pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
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The low stumps shall gore
His daintly feet. --Coleridge.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gore \Gore\, v. t.
To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide
with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gore
n 1: Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton
(born in 1948) [syn: Gore, Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr.]
2: coagulated blood from a wound
3: a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering;
used in making garments or umbrellas or sails [syn: gore,
panel]
4: the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the
bloodshed of his kinsmen" [syn: bloodshed, gore]
v 1: wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or
instrument
2: cut into gores; "gore a skirt"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "gore":
Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor,
antibody, antigen, arterial blood, auger, bane, bite, blood,
blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor,
blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture,
blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute,
bloodletting, bloodmobile, bloodshed, bloodstream, bore, braining,
broach, butchery, carnage, circulation, claret, clinical dextran,
countersink, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life,
dextran, disembowel, dispatch, drill, empierce, erythrocyte,
euthanasia, execution, extermination, fix, flow of blood, globulin,
gouge, gouge out, grume, hematics, hematologist, hematology,
hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, hole,
honeycomb, horn, humor, ichor, immolation, impale, isoantibody,
kill, killing, lance, lapidation, leukocyte, lifeblood, martyrdom,
martyrization, mercy killing, needle, neutrophil, opsonin,
penetrate, perforate, phagocyte, pierce, pink, plasma,
plasma substitute, poisoning, poke, prick, punch, puncture, ream,
ream out, red corpuscle, riddle, ritual killing, ritual murder,
run through, sacrifice, serum, shooting, skewer, slaughter,
slaying, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, stoning, taking of life,
tap, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, tusk, type O,
venous blood, white corpuscle
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Gore, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 850
Housing Units (2000): 416
Land area (2000): 2.282343 sq. miles (5.911240 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.282343 sq. miles (5.911240 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30300
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.532851 N, 95.115032 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74435
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gore, OK
Gore