Gore

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Dirt; mud.

II. Gore ·v A small traingular piece of land.

III. Gore ·noun Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

IV. Gore ·v One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

V. Gore ·vt To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an Apron.

VI. Gore ·vt To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to Stab.

VII. 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.

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