gore Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
    Al Gore; Albert Gore Jr..
  2. noun coagulated blood from a wound
  3. noun a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
    panel.
  4. noun the shedding of blood resulting in murder
    bloodshed.
    • he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen
  5. verb wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
  6. verb cut into gores
    • gore a skirt

WordNet

Gore noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. Dirt; mud. Obs. Bp. Fisher.
  2. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.
Gore noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
  2. A small traingular piece of land. Cowell.
  3. (Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point. ✍ 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.
Gore transitive verb
Etymology
OE. gar spear, AS. gr. See 2d Gore.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Gored ; present participle & verbal noun Goring
Definitions
  1. 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. Coleridge.
Gore transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Webster 1913