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Meaning of 'gore' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gore [ n.]
- Dirt; mud.
- Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
2 . Gore [ v.]
- A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
- A small traingular piece of land.
- One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
3 . Gore [ v. t.]
- To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
- To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Meaning of 'gore' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gore [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the shedding of blood resulting in murder
Example in sentence:
  • he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen
2 . gore [ v]
Meaning (2):
- cut into gores
Example in sentence:
  • gore a skirt

Nearby Words:

gor-bellied gor-belly goracco goral goramy gorce gorcock gorcrow gord gordiacea

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