gore

Meanings

Plural: gores

Noun

• Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
• coagulated blood from a wound
• a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
• the shedding of blood resulting in murder
• Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
• A gout or mass of such blood.
• Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
• Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
• A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
• A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
• 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, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
• A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
• An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
• A projecting point.
• A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.

Verb

• wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
• cut into gores
  • "gore a skirt"
• To cover or smear with blood.
• To pierce with a horn or tusk.
• To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
• To needle or wound the feelings of.
• To cut into a triangular form.
• To provide with a gore.

Synonyms

Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr., bloodshed, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, ghost island, gore, gride, horn, jab, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, lancinate, neutral area, panel, pigstick, pink, poach, run through, shank, shiv, spear, speet, splash, stab, stick, stob, stog, thrust, yerk