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noun

Gore n.

Dirt; mud. (Obs.)

Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

Gore n.

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.

(Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point. Note: 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.

verb

Gore v. t. (past & past part. gored; pres. part. goring) 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."

Gore v. t. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

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"Gore" Quotes from Famous Books

... locks the helm Achilles tore And boasted o'er the slain; but lo, the face Of her thus lying in the dust and gore Seem'd lovelier than is the maiden grace Of Artemis, when weary from the chase, She sleepeth in a haunted dell unknown. And all the Argives marvell'd for a space, But most Achilles made a ...

— Helen of Troy • Andrew Lang

... poured forth out of the camp; and now, forgetful of all precautions, they drove before them the mob of barbarians, except such as flight had saved from destruction, trampling on the heaps of slain, and covered with gore. ...

— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus

... in the Park now," interposed Kemp. "He's at White Slides, I reckon, these last eight or ten years. Thet's over the Gore Range." ...

— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey

... on his way, and all his breast and his cheeks on either side are flecked with blood, and he is terrible to behold; even so was Odysseus stained, both hands and feet. Now the nurse, when she saw the bodies of the dead and the great gore of blood, made ready to cry aloud for joy, beholding so great an adventure. But Odysseus checked and held her in her eagerness, and uttering his voice ...

— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.

... Zulus had determined to take the law into their own hands. Cetchwayo, therefore, when the news of our annexation of the Transvaal reached him, was like a wild beast baulked of its prey. He was anxious for an occasion for his young warriors "to wash their spears" in the gore of his enemies, and was naturally disappointed to find them under the protection of the white man. The Natal Government attempted to soothe him—to promote peace. He remained sullen and simmered. He vented his spleen by putting several ...

— South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) - From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum - of 9th Oct. 1899 • Louis Creswicke

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