Etymology From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).
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Usually Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23:
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Usually Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:
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Usually Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
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Usually Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
Obsolete except in dialects
As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:
Etymology From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).
Etymology From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).
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Of an animal To pierce with a horn or tusk.
The bull gored the matador.
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Obsolete To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
Etymology From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related Geometrics, page 448:
With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.2010, John L. Campbell, Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, page 20-5:
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Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page 10-97:
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Archaic, Dialectal A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
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Geography, Natural sciences, SurveyingUS A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
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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.
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A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
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An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
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A projecting point.
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics 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.
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A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
Etymology From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
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To cut into a triangular form.
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To provide with a gore.
to gore an apron
If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.^([sic])1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3: