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Gore

gɔr
WordNet
Photo reproduction of a print depicting a portrait of George Goring
Photo reproduction of a print depicting a portrait of George Goring
  1. (v) gore
    wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
  2. (v) gore
    cut into gores "gore a skirt"
  3. (n) gore
    the shedding of blood resulting in murder "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"
  4. (n) gore
    a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
  5. (n) gore
    coagulated blood from a wound
  6. (n) Gore
    Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
Illustrations
Frederick Saint John Gore on a mule and three donkey drivers
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Gore
    A small traingular piece of land.
  2. Gore
    A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
  3. Gore
    Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
  4. Gore
    Dirt; mud.
  5. Gore
    (Her) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
  6. Gore
    To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
  7. 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."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) gore
    Dirt; mud. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. (n) gore
    Blood that is shed or drawn from the body; thick or clotted blood.
  3. (n) gore
    A relatively long and narrow triangular strip or slip; a projecting point. Specifically
  4. (n) gore
    A triangular piece or tapering strip of land. A gore is often a small tract which, commonly by error in description of the boundaries or in their location in surveying, fails to be included in the possession, maps, or muniments of two or more tracts, or either of them, which would otherwise be adjacent. Gores may also be produced by various other exigencies in the surveying or division of land, as the diagonal crossing of streets in a city, the divisional lines or variations of soil on a farm, etc.
  5. (n) gore
    In Maine and Vermont, and formerly in Massachusetts, an unorganized and thinly settled subdivision of a county.
  6. (n) gore
    A triangular piece or strip of material inserted to make something, as a garment or a sail, wider in one part than in another; especially, in dressmaking, a long triangle introduced to make a skirt wider at the bottom or hem than at the waist. See goring.
  7. (n) gore
    A part of the dress; hence, the dress itself; a garment.
  8. (n) gore
    An angular plank used in fitting a vessel's skin to the frames.
  9. (n) gore
    In heraldry, a charge consisting of two curved lines, one from the sinister chief point, the other from the base middle point, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fesse-point. Also called gusset.
  10. gore
    To shape like a gore; cut or treat so as to form a gore.
  11. gore
    To furnish with a gore or gores, as a dress-skirt or a sail.
  12. gore
    To pierce; penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear or a horn; wound deeply.
  13. gore
    To scoop; dig.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Gore
    gōr clotted blood: blood
  2. (n) Gore
    gōr a triangular piece let into a garment to widen it: a triangular piece of land
  3. (v.t) Gore
    to shape like or furnish with gores: to pierce with anything pointed, as a spear or horns
  4. (adj) Gore
    cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing—of a sail
Quotations
Lord Byron
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Lord Byron
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. gore, gare, AS. gra, angular point of land, fr. gr, 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.)

Usage in the news

Now this, this right here is the kind of thing that must make Al Gore want to dive to the bottom of a vat of Jack Daniels and drink his way to the surface again. esquire.com

Gore says rib pain has lessened 'a lot. blog.sfgate.com

The funny ladies join many others on a rendition of Leslie Gore's 1964 hit, "You Don't Own Me," aimed at raising awareness about women's rights as election day nears. hollywoodreporter.com

Lesley Gore Leads 'You Don't Own Me' Lipsync Election PSA. billboard.com

The movie that not only gave us a new level of terror, shocking gore, and -yes.- zombies, celebrates an anniversary. newstalk870.am

Grasshopper Manufacture's Lollipop Chainsaw is a comedic gore-fest. blog.al.com

Police Reopen Al Gore Case. online.wsj.com

Al Gore's masseuse asks National Enquirer for $1 million for sexual assault account. nydailynews.com

Former Vice President Al Gore attorney's have denied allegations… (Monsivais/AP ). nydailynews.com

Al Gore 'abuse' masseuse eyes $1M to talk. nypost.com

A masseuse who accused Al Gore of being a "crazed sex poodle" and of groping her in a hotel room is preparing to come forward and sell her story -- for $1 million. nypost.com

Gore, the $1.35-billion-a-year Newark, Del. money.cnn.com

The EU, Mikhail Gorbachev and Al Gore Have This in Common. forbes.com

A mountain goat that fatally gored a hiker, then stood over the man and stared at people trying to help, had shown aggressive behavior in the past, Olympic National Park officials said Monday. csmonitor.com

A Vicious Narcissus On the career of Gore Vidal. nationalreview.com

Usage in scientific papers

Apart from variable stars, Gore‘s other astronomical passion was double stars. Although he enjoyed observing these objects with his telescopes, his main interest was computing the orbits of binary systems.
John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness

Gore did indeed observe things, but he wanted a mathematical understanding of them too.
John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness

Given Gore‘s interest in binary stars and their orbits, it was natural that he should turn his attention to the Sirius system.
John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness

We now know that Sirius B is a highly evolved star known as a white dwarf, with a density even greater than Gore‘s rejected estimate.
John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness

Gore was also the first to comment on the unusual faintness of the companions of 40 Eridani (81) and Procyon, suggesting that the latter object might not be a star at all, but a low density gaseous nebular (91).
John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness

Usage in literature

Dr. Gore was one of Nature's noblemen. "Memories" by Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers

Gore-tainted homicide, town-battering Mars! "The Iliad of Homer" by Homer

On its hard rind there is gore! "The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge" by Unknown

It was broad pink and white stripes, and they wanted some style to "Cory's" clothes, so they cut a gored skirt. "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

In the summer he took a house up the river at Goring, and went there to live with Lord Alfred Douglas. "Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2)" by Frank Harris

If a wild bull in his charge has gored a man and caused him to die, that case has no remedy. "The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242" by Hammurabi, King of Babylon

Goring in a hurry on this service. "The Actress in High Life" by Sue Petigru Bowen

Mr. Goring's answer to this requisition of the board is as follows. "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12)" by Edmund Burke

The house was enlarged and beautified by Sir Humphrey Gore, who was knighted at Whitehall in 1660. "Hertfordshire" by Herbert W Tompkins

It was a piece of human skin covered with gore and straight hair partly plaited. "The Delight Makers" by Adolf Bandelier

Usage in poetry
She said that she in human gore
Above the knees did wade,
And that no tongue could truly tell
The tricks she there had play'd.
O Christ! it was a griefe to see,
And likewise for to heare,
The cries of men lying in their gore,
And scattered here and there.
Those tender limbs unus'd to stray
Beyond a father's door;
Full many a mile have journey'd forth,
Each footstep mark'd with gore.
"The Ancram Moor is red with gore,
For many a southron fell;
And Buccleuch has charged us, evermore,
To watch our beacons well."—
They wrestled up, they wrestled down,
They wrestled still and sore;
Beneath their feet the myrtle sweet
Was stamped to mud and gore.
The husbandman does leave his plough
To wade thro' fields of gore;
The merchant binds his brows in steel,
And leaves the trading shore;