Gore, n. [AS. gor dirt, dung; akin to Icel. gor, SW. gorr, OHG. gor, and perh. to E. cord, chord, and yarn; cf. Icel. görn, garnir, guts.].

Dirt; mud. Bp. Fisher. [1913 Webster]
Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton. [1913 Webster]

Gore, n. [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.].

A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part. [1913 Webster]
A small traingular piece of land. Cowell. [1913 Webster]
One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point. [1913 Webster]
" 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." [1913 Webster]

Gore, v. t. [OE. gar spear, AS. gr. See 2d Gore.].

To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. [1913 Webster]

"The low stumps shall gore
His daintly feet." [1913 Webster]

Gore, v. t.

To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Gore, n. blood shed and clotted.

Gore, v.tr. pierce with a horn, tusk, etc.

Gore, n. & v.
--n.
1 a wedge-shaped piece in a garment.
2 a triangular or tapering piece in an umbrella etc.
--v.tr. shape with a gore.

Etymology

OE gara triangular piece of land, rel. to OE gar spear, a spearhead being triangular

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THESAURUS

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

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ROGET THESAURUS

Gore

Junction

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.

Opening

VB open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge, fly open, perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill, mine, tunnel, transpierce, transfix, enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch, stave in, cut a passage through, make way for, make room for, uncover, unclose, unrip, lay open, cut open, rip open, throw open, pop open, blow open, pry open, tear open, pull open.

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.

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