Gore

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  • transitive verb. To pierce or stab with a horn or tusk.
  • noun. A triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail.
  • noun. A small triangular piece of land.
  • transitive verb. To provide with a gore.
  • transitive verb. To cut into a gore.
  • noun. Blood, especially coagulated blood from a wound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shape like a gore; cut or treat so as to form a gore.
  • To furnish with a gore or gores, as a dress-skirt or a sail.
  • To pierce; penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear or a horn; wound deeply.
  • To scoop; dig.
  • noun. A relatively long and narrow triangular strip or slip; a projecting point. Specifically
  • noun. A triangular piece or tapering strip of land.
  • noun. In Maine and Vermont, and formerly in Massachusetts, an unorganized and thinly settled subdivision of a county.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A part of the dress; hence, the dress itself; a garment.
  • noun. An angular plank used in fitting a vessel's skin to the frames.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Dirt; mud. [Prov. Eng.]
  • noun. Blood that is shed or drawn from the body; thick or clotted blood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Dirt; mud.
  • noun. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
  • transitive verb. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore.
  • transitive verb. To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
  • noun. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
  • noun. A small traingular piece of land.
  • noun. One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To pierce with the horns.
  • noun. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
  • noun. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.
  • noun. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  • noun. A projecting point.
  • verb. To cut in a triangular form.
  • verb. To provide with a gore.
  • noun. Dirt, filth.
  • noun. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  • noun. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. coagulated blood from a wound
  • verb. wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
  • noun. the shedding of blood resulting in murder
  • verb. cut into gores
  • noun. a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
  • noun. Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
  • Word Usage
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    Form
    gored  goring  gory  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boer  Bohr  C4  Dior  Dore  
    Synonym
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    verb-form
    gored  gorees  gores  goring