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gore

Webster 1828

GORE, noun [Gr. from issuing.]1. Blood; but generally, thick or clotted blood; blood that after effusion becomes inspissated.2. Dirt; mud. [Unusual.]GORE, noun 1. A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part.2. A slip or triangular piece of land.3. In heraldry, an abatement denoting a coward. It consists of two arch lines, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fess point.GORE, verb transitive 1. To stab; to pierce; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear.2. To pierce with the point of a horn.If an ox gore a man or a woman--Exodus 21:28