gore

Meanings

Noun

• Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
• Murder, bloodshed, violence.
• Dirt; mud; filth.
• A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
• A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
• The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe
• 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.^Wp
• An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
• A projecting point.
• One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

Verb

• To pierce with the horn.
• To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
• To cut in a triangular form.
• To provide with a gore.

Origin

• From Middle English gore, gor, gorre, from Old English gor ("dirt, dung, filth, muck"), from Proto-Germanic *gurą ("half-digested stomach contents; feces; manure"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- ("hot; warm").
• From Middle English goren, from enm, ultimately from Old English gār ("spear"), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz. Related to gar and gore.
• From Middle English gore, from Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.