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▪ I. † goree, n.1 slang. Obs.
Also 7 gory.
Money. Phrase old Mr. Goree (see quot.).
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Goree, Money, but chiefly Gold. Old-Mr.-Gory, a piece of Gold. 1725in New Cant. Dict.
▪ II. goree, n.2, gori|gɒˈriː|
Also gore.
[ad. Chinyanja goḷi.]
A forked stick used by the Arabs to fasten slaves together by their necks. Also gori-stick.
1865D. & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi v. 137 ‘Goree’, or Slave-stick. 1891Life & Work May [4] This boy..worked in a gore-stick for two years. 1899A. Werner Captain of Locusts 243 Uledi and certain men came down..from the Unango country, bringing with them people tied in gori-sticks. 1921W. P. Livingstone Laws of Livingstonia iii. ix. 213 The slaves..fastened with chains or the gori stick. 1925Blackw. Mag. Aug. 276/2 The young ones already had their necks in the goree.
▪ III. ˈgoree, ˈgory, a. Her.
[f. gore n.2; a pseudo-AF. rendering of gored ppl. a.3]
(See quots.)
1828–40Berry Encycl. Herald. I, Gorée or Gory, in old authors sometimes written goarée and goary, is the same as double archée. 1889Elvin Dict. Heraldry, Gored or Gorée, cut into large arched indents. |