gore

Noun (1)

gore (usually uncountable, plural gores)

1. (usually) Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. (countable, obsolete, usually) A gout or mass of such blood.
   • 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
3. (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
4. (usually) Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
5. (usually, obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
   • As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms

Verb (1)

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

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

Verb (2)

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive) To pierce with a horn or tusk.
   • The bull gored the matador.

   Synonyms:

   horn

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

   Synonyms:

   jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gride, job

3. (figuratively, intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To needle or wound the feelings of.

Noun (2)

gore (plural gores)

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
   • 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...
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   neutral area, ghost island

2. (archaic, dialectal) A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
3. (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.
5. 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
6. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
7. A projecting point.
8. 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 (3)

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. To cut into a triangular form.
2. 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...1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3

Proper noun capitalized: Gore

US/ɡɔːɹ/

Gore

1. A surname.
   • Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.
   • This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee.2000 August 24, William Safire, “Essay; Pardon Me, But . . .”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2018
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.
4. A territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town; in full, Gore District.
5. A small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.
6. Gore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.
7. A rural community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Charles Stephen Gore.
8. A township municipality in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Francis Gore.
9. An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
10. A township in Huron County, Michigan.
11. An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
12. An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
13. A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.
14. An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia.