Definition of "gore" in English

noun

1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

2. (countable, obsolete) A gout or mass of such blood.

3. Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.

4. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cover or smear with blood.

verb

1. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk.

   • The bull gored the matador.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

3. (transitive or intransitive with at, obsolete, figurative) To needle or wound the feelings of.

noun

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

2. (archaic or dialectal) A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.

3. (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.

4. 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

5. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.

6. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.

7. A projecting point.

8. (heraldry) 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.

9. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.

verb

1. To cut into a triangular form.

2. To provide with a gore.

   • to gore an apron