goren.1
/ɡɔː/, U.S. /ɡɔr/ 1. † b. Hardened rheum from the eyes. Obsolete. rare.
a. Dung, fæces; filth of any kind, dirt, slime. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun]
gorec725
horeeOE
filthOE
foulnessOE
dirta1300
gallc1400
ordurec1400
foulinga1425
harlotry1439
muck1440
noisance1473
horeness1495
vileness1495
naughtiness1533
vility1540
bawdiness1552
vildness1597
snottery1598
soilage1598
sordidity1600
soil?1605
sluttery1607
nastiness1611
bawdry1648
sords1653
crott1657
feculence1662
nast1789
clart1808
schmutz1838
crap1925
grunge1965
gunge1969
grot1971
spooge1987
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]
gorec725
mixeOE
quedeeOE
turdeOE
dungOE
worthinga1225
dirta1300
drega1300
naturea1325
fen1340
ordurec1390
fimea1475
merd1486
stercory1496
avoidc1503
siegec1530
fex1540
excrement1541
hinder-fallings1561
gong1562
foil1565
voiding1577
pilgrim-salvec1580
egestion1583
shita1585
sir-reverence1592
purgament1597
filinga1622
faecesa1625
exclusion1646
faecality1653
tantadlin1654
surreverence1655
draught1659
excrementitiousness1660
jakes1701
old golda1704
dejection1728
dejecture1731
shitea1733
feculence1733
doll1825
crap1846
excreta1857
excretes1883
hockey1886
dejecta1887
job1899
number two1902
mess1903
ming1923
do1930
tomtit1930
pony1931
No. 21937
dog shit1944
Shinola1944
big job1945
biggie1953
doo-doo1954
doings1957
gick1959
pooh1960
pooh-pooh1962
dooky1965
poopy1970
whoopsie1973
pucky1980
jobbie1981
c725 Corpus Gloss. 883 Fimum, goor.
OE Riddle 40 72 Is þæs gores sunu gonge hrædra, þone we wifel wordum nemnað.
c1000 Ælfric Exodus xxix. 14 Þæs cealfes flæsc and fell and gor.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1130 Bothe þe guttez and the gorre guschez owte at ones.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 306 Þe gore þer-of me hatz greued & þe glette nwyed.
c1400 St. Alexius (Laud 622) 1005 His fader sergeauntz alle..gorre on hym gonne þrowe.
1460 Lybeaus Disc. 1471 Gore, and fen, and full wast, That was out ykast.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 59 Tainting with lothsome gore the common fold.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 16 Such sheepe likewise as are troubled with the infirmity of chewinge of gorre..a greate parte of theire meate, whiles that they are chewinge of it, workes forth of the wykes of theire mouthe.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Gor, Gore, dirt, any~thing rotten or decayed.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > excretions from eye > [noun]
spadec725
tear971
goundc1000
wateriness?1550
eye-stream1591
eye-water1591
eye drop1600
guma1616
eye-brine1616
gowl1665
gore1741
teardrop1789
tearlet1858
sleep1922
sleeper1942
1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 48 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) The Gum, or Gore, as we call it, was separated in greater Quantity,..and the Eye-ball itself was diminished.
1808–80 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
2. † b. (all) (in) a (or one) gore of blood: bathed in or besmeared with blood. (Cf. gore blood n. 2) Obsolete.† c. ? A clot, ‘gout’ (of blood). Obsolete. rare.
a.
(a) Blood in the thickened state that follows effusion. In poetical language often: Blood shed in carnage. †In early use occasionally blood and gore, bloody gore (cf. Dutch bloed en goor); see also gore blood n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood > shed blood
gore1563
travelled blood1962
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > coagulated blood
gore1563
gore blood1573
jelly-blood1582
1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Hastings xxviii A Souldyours handes must oft be dyed with goare.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 135 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 110 Zoan plaines..Saw watry clearnes chang'd to bloudy gore.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A4v This warm reeking goare.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Examen Poeticum 38 Th' expiring Serpent wallow'd in his Gore.
c1760 T. Smollett Ode to Independence 18 The Saxon prince in horror fled From altars stained with human gore.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 160 His talons are sheathed in her shoulders, And his teeth are red in her gore.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iii. ii. 181 Red with gore was the spear of the prelate of London.
(b) Whimsically used for ‘blood’.
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1799 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 305 I have three brothers, that is to say, relations by gore.
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1661 S. Pepys Diary 7 Dec. (1970) II. 228 In comes the German back again, all of a goare blood.
1749 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 147 She was all in a gore of blood.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iv. 147 From their forehead to their shoes, they were in one gore of blood.
1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. 171 He's all a Gore of blood.
1824 Examiner 15/1 Lying on the ground in a gore of blood.
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1727 P. Longueville Hermit 253 He saw Gores of Blood here and there.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive (In sense 1.)† gore-pit n. Obsolete
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1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. bb.iiv As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte or in the puddell.
b. Objective.
gore-distilling adj.
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1758 J. Beattie Ode to Peace i. ii, in Scots Mag. Sept. 482/1 Murder..Shakes her gore-distilling wings.
gore-dropping adj.
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1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. iii. 33 His sightless and gore-dropping sockets.
c. Instrumental.
gore-bedabbled adj.
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1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xi. xi. 219 The tomb Of the bones and the flesh, Gore-bedabbled and fresh.
gore-drenched adj.
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1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 169 That gore-drenched flag.
gore-drowned adj.
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1627 M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in Battaile Agincourt 114 Much dismay'd with what had lately hapt, On Gore-drown'd Gladmore in that bloody shower.
gore-dyed adj.
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1794 R. Southey Wat Tyler iii. ii Flattery's incense No more shall shadow round the gore-dyed throne.
gore-fed adj.
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1801 M. G. Lewis Bothwell's Bonny Jane xxxvi His hands two gore-fed scorpions grasp'd.
gore-moistened adj.
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1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xlii. 41 Gore-moisten'd trees shall perish in the bud.
gore-spangled adj.
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a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 149 Gore-spangled Ensignes streaming in the Aire.
gore-stained adj.
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1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 81 Mars, man-slayer, gore-stained, stormer of walls.
d. Parasynthetic.
gore-faced adj.
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1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xlviii. 32 Gore-fac'd Treason sprung from her adulterate joy.
C2.
gore-chewer n. dialect (cf. quot. a1642 at sense 1a).
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1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Gore-chower, a sheep which, owing to some structural defect in its mouth, is unable to retain or properly masticate its food.
Draft additions September 2018
gorehound n. a person who enjoys scenes or descriptions of bloodshed and gory violence; (now) esp. a fan of films characterized by scenes of graphic violence and bloodshed.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > bloodthirstiness > [noun] > bloodthirsty person
bloodhoundc1440
cannibal1563
blood-hunter1592
Lestrigon1605
fee-faw-fum1680
Lestrigoniana1887
blood-drinker1898
gorehound1920
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > going to film shows > [noun] > film-goer or lover > of specific type of film
gorehound1920
kidult1988
1920 Daily Silver Belt (Miami, Arizona) 9 Mar. There should be wallops enough in this [boxing match] to satisfy the most critical of the gore hounds.
1983 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 1 Sept. c5/1 Gorehounds are a breed apart. They can be seen lining up outside move theaters for such stomach-turners as ‘Corpse Grinder’, ‘Maniac’, ‘Gore Gore Girls’ or that all-time favourite, ‘I Spit on Your Grave’.
2015 Time Out London 20 Oct. 57/2 His leftfield line-up includes..gorehounds' favourite ‘Zombie Flesh Eaters’ among others.
Draft additions September 2018
gorefest n. a scene or description of bloodshed and gory violence; (now esp.) a film characterized by scenes of graphic violence and bloodshed.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > bloodshed > scene or description of
gorefest1972
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
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1972 Washington Post 24 Sept. f1 Evans was an illustrator whose cool craftsmanship somehow heightened the gore-fests of the horror books.
2012 Wonderland Feb. 48/2 This gorefest..tells the story of a vegan schoolteacher who discovers how to fuel cars with blood.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
goren.2
/ɡɔː/, U.S. /ɡɔr/ 1. A triangular piece of land.† a. An angular point, a promontory. (Old English only.)
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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §26 Ispania land is þryscyte..An ðæra garena lið suðwest.
b. A wedge-shaped strip of land on the side of an irregular field (cf. quot. 1881). Now only dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > wedge-shaped piece of land
crook1417
gore1523
pike1523
goring1886
1235–52 in C. J. Elton Rentalia et Custumaria (1891) (Som. Rec. Soc.) 58 Radulfus tenet unam goram terræ.
c1325 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) I. 571 Duæ rodæ..scilicet le Gores super Shortefurlong.]
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xxi. f. 39, .xxxvi. landes, & thre gores fother or pyke, and they be all one thing.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 45 There is in it 14 through lands and two gares.
1793 Trans. Soc. Arts 11 52 Contained in the head lands and gores, or short lands.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) When a field, the sides of which are straight but not parallel, is divided into ‘lands’ or ‘leys’, the angular piece at the side is called a gore or pike.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Gores, the short ridges in an unevenly shaped ploughed field.
c. A small strip or tract of land lying between larger divisions. Chiefly U.S.
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip
sideling1250
tail1472
strake1503
vein1555
slip1591
neckland1598
slang1610
spang1610
screed1615
gore1650
spong1650
belt1725
slinget1790
stripe1801
strip1816
wedge1867
ribbon1923
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. xi. 34 Which gore, or gusset of ground, was called Apherema, that is, a thing taken away, because parted from Samaria, and pieced to Judea.
1703 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) IV. 153 A heape of stones set for a south westerne Corner of a Goare, or Slipe of land.
1733 Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1859) IV. 478 The gore of land (adjoining to Attleborough) in controversy between this colony and the Province of the Massachusetts Bay.
1818 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. VII. 146 A small gore also on the east side of the town..was annexed to Pembroke June 7, 1754.
186. J. Draper Hist. Spencer (ed. 2) 12 A gore about one mile wide, lying between Leicester and Spencer.
1887 G. W. Sears Forest Runes p. vii What New Englanders call a ‘gore’,—a triangular strip of land that gets left out somehow when the towns are surveyed.
d. ? = gair n., an isolated fertile strip.
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1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 395 Its locality is a narrow gore on the summit of the cinder-bed.
e. (See quots.)
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1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. in Archaeologia 17 (E.D.S.) Gore, the lowest part in a tract of country.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Gore, level low-lying land. Most parishes have a field called the ‘Gore’.
a. poetic. The front section of a skirt, wider at the bottom than at the top (cf. sense 3); the lap of a gown, an apron. Hence in extended sense: a skirt, petticoat, gown. Also in phrase under gore, under one's clothes (in Middle English poetry often a mere expletive). (Cf. Old French geron, giron used in the same senses.) Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [adverb] > under one's clothes
under gorea1250
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt
gorea1250
coat1393
skirta1400
placket1547
vasquine1553
petticoata1586
vascay1609
jupe1825
jupon1851
skirty1922
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > parts of > other
gorea1250
placard1549
pannier1796
pullback1870
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 515 Habbe he isstunge under gore, Ne last his luve no lenger more.
a1290 in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1881) 222 Ich wolde I-witen nouþe Leuedi..Wi þe failleþ gore, Sleue and nammore Of cloþ þat ich I-se.
a1300 Siriz 5 Wis he wes of lore And gouthlich under gore And clothed in fair sroud.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2868 It was a ferly gin, So heye vnder hir gare It fleiȝe.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 31 Glad vnder gore in gro ant in grys.
c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 78 An elf-queene shal my lemman be, And slepe vnder my goore.
1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 31 Had I thy power knowen or this yore..Nat sholde his lym han cleued to my gore.
c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 198 Þat fayr lady Was godely unther gare.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oiiiv/1 A Gore, gremiale.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > parts of
hemc1275
lapc1300
skirtc1330
fentc1430
amyta1450
upper-bodying1502
gorea1529
fox-fur1598
robing1727
lappet1734
robin1750
sack1775
clavus1842
a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.iv My byrde so fayre That was wont to..go in at my spayre And crepe in at my gore Of my gowne before.
3. † b. A triangular piece (cut out of something).
a. Any wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth forming part of a garment and serving to produce the difference in width required at different points, esp. used to narrow a skirt at the waist (cf. sense 2).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > inserted piece of fabric > types of
gorec1325
gusset?1577
slashing1842
mitre1882
empiecement1886
interlude1890
godet1923
c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 172 Par devant avet escours E de coste sunt gerouns [gloss gores].
c1386 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Harl.) 136 A kirtel..Schapen with goores in the newe get.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 51 A ceynt she werde..A barmclooth..ful of many a goore.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 203/2 Goore of a clothe, lacinia.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 179 in Poems (1981) 116 His garmound and his gyte full gay of grene, With goldin listis gilt on euerie gair.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 226/2 Goore of a smocke, poynte de chemise.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 215 in Shorter Poems (1967) 22 In purpur robe hemmid with gold ilk gare [1579 Edinb. gair].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Gheroni..the gores or gussets of a smocke or shirt, the side peeces of a cloke.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gore, a piece of Linnen-cloth let into the sides of a Woman's Shift.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xx. 156 The sailors recognized it at once as the gore of a pair of trowsers.
1883 Knowledge 13 July 30/1 The skirt..has four gores in front.
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c1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 6395 His scheld he clef, god it wot, & of his hauberk a gore & of his aketoun a fot & more.
4. Heraldry. A charge formed by two curved lines meeting in the fesse-point, the one being drawn from the sinister or dexter chief and the other from the lowest angle of the base (cf. quot. 1562).
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > abatement or mark of dishonour > types of
delfc1500
gore1562
gusset1562
point in point1562
diminution1610
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 72 b He beareth Argent, a Gore Sinister Sable. He that is a coward to his enemie, must beare this, But if it be a dexter Gore, although of Staynand colour, yet it is a good cote for a gentlewoman.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. viii. 34 A Goare Sinister..This Abatement..is due to him that is a Coward to his enemy.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) : and in mod. Dicts.
5. One of the many triangular or lune-shaped pieces that form the surface of a celestial or terrestrial globe, a balloon, the covering of an umbrella, the dome of a building, etc.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent > forming part of surface of a globe
gore1796
1796 Russell Specif. Patent 2144 3 The globe being covered with printed gores.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 556 In polygonal domes the curves of the gore will bound the ends of the boards.
1864 Athenæum No. 1933. 631/3 Seaming together the gores of his balloon.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 987/1 A very cheap paper globe is now met with, in which the printed gores are brought together edge to edge by a string.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 171 For each of the triangular gores of the dome we now substitute a vault.
6. Nautical.
a. (See quot. 1851.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > material of sails > piece of cloth forming part of sail > with tapering cut to increase depth
goring1769
gore1794
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 91 In sails with a roach~leech, the lower gores are longer.
1851 R. Kipping Sails & Sail-making (ed. 2) 184 Gores.—Angles cut slopewise at one or both ends of such cloths as widen or increase the depth of a sail.
b. ‘Angular pieces of plank inserted to fill up a vessel's planking at any part requiring it’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gore, an angular piece of planking used in fitting the skin of a vessel to the frames.
Compounds
gore-coat n. (see quot. 1888).
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1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 9 Thy Gore Coat oll a girred, thy Head-Clathing oll a foust.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Gore A gorecoat is a petticoat made so as to fit closely at the waist without gathering.
gore-furrow n. (see quot.).
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 472 A gore-furrow is a space made to prevent the meeting of two ridges, and as a substitute for an open furrow between them.
gore vetch n. now rare a type of cultivated vetch, Vicia sativa, typically grown as food for livestock; (also) the seeds of such a plant.
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1683 J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husbandry & Trade II. iv. 88 Do you sow hereabout the Gore-Vetch, Pebble-Vetch, Winter-Vetch, Rath ripe Vetch, Dilks, or Lentills?
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 86 I hold it improper to sow wheat on the green stubble of goar-vetches cut for horses.
1880 Ipswich Jrnl. 23 Mar. 4/6 Some good foreign gore vetches are obtainable on Mark Lane at 49s. per qr.
1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) vii. 101 The summer vetch, also called the Goar vetch, resembles the winter and spring vetches, but it is a larger plant with larger seeds and a shorter growing period.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
goren.3
= gare n.1, a spear or javelin.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > goad
goadeOE
prickleOE
yardc1000
prickc1225
gad1289
gorea1325
brodc1375
brodyke1471
pricker?a1475
gad-wand1487
gadstaff1568
stimule1583
goad prick1609
ankus1768
goad stick1773
sjambok1790
driving stick1800
prod1828
sting1842
quirt1845
garrocha1846
gad-stick1866
romal1904
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3458 Dead ðolen, wið stones slagen, Or to dead wið goren dragen [L. confodietur jaculis, Exod. xix. 13].
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Gore, a long rod tipped with a small spear for driving oxen. Always so called.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† goren.4
Obsolete.
= gorce n.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > in a river > natural
gore1523
gorce1706
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 13 Diuers newe weres, gores, stackes, and ingins haue bene leuied and enhaunsed.
1657 W. Prynne Exact Abridgem. Rec. Tower of London 57 And now of late daily the said Rivers are stopped and turned aside by Goors, Mills, Piles, and Pales.
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† goren.5
Obsolete.
= grandgore n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > syphilis
foul evila1398
grandgore1497
French disease1503
French pox1503
pox1503
great pocka1519
great pox1529
morbus gallicus1543
gore1554
marbles1592
verol1596
Spanish pox1600
verola1600
the foul evil1607
bube1608
grincome1608
Neapolitan1631
lues1634
scabbado1651
venereal syphilis1653
foul disease1680
gout1694
syphilid1829
syphiloid1833
syphiloderma1850
vaccino-syphilis1868
neurosyphilis1878
old ral1878
syph1914
bejel1928
cosmic disease-
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 5113 in Wks. (1931) I Vtheris strange Infirmeteis..As in the Gutt, grauell, and gor.
1627 P. Forbes Eubulus viii. 152 A man hath the Goare, in his Legge: which Legge, all-bee-it, in an hudge degree, festered; yet, walketh, and mooveth... Nowe, shall the Goare, heere, glorie, that [etc.].
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gorev.1
/ɡɔː/, U.S. /ɡɔr/ a. transitive. To pierce or stab deeply, with a sharp weapon, spike, spur, or the like. Obsolete except as in 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon
woundc760
stickOE
snese?c1225
stokea1300
steekc1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
chop1362
broach1377
foinc1380
strikec1390
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
stitch1527
falchiona1529
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
stob?1530
rutc1540
rove?c1550
push1551
foxa1566
stoga1572
poniard1593
dirk1599
bestab1600
poach1602
stiletto1613
stocka1640
inrun1653
stoccado1677
dagger1694
whip1699
bayonetc1700
tomahawk1711
stug1722
chiv1725
kittle1786
sabre1790
halberd1825
jab1825
skewer1837
sword1863
poke1866
spear1869
whinger1892
pig-stick1902
shiv1926
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon
prickOE
pritchOE
snese?c1225
threstc1275
stokea1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
broach1377
foinc1380
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
slot?a1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
to run in1509
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
accloy1543
push1551
stoga1572
poacha1616
stocka1640
stoccado1677
stug1722
kittle1820
skewer1837
pitchfork1854
poke1866
chib1973
a1400–50 Alexander 3645 Þare was..many of Perses Gorred..& grysely woundid.
c1400 Siege Jerusalem (1932) 941 Þe newe emperour..alle þe cite drowe hym; & suþ gored þe gome, þat his guttes alle..in-to his breche felle.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 147 As he rod ouyr þe brigge, on was beneth, and with a spere gored him.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. x. 186 Cruell Pirrus, Quhilk..gorris the fader at the altair but grace.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 840 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 121 I am vngraciously gorrit baith guttis & gall.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxiii. 46 These shal stone them, and gorre them with their sweardes.
?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Bv The freere felt hys bellye, &..thought hee had ben gored, and cried out..I am kylled.
1573 J. Davidson Breif Commendatioun Vprichtnes xl. 375 With Gun and Gainȝe thocht thay boist to gor ȝow [rhymes with befoir ȝow].
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S3 The sacred Diademe in peeces rent, And purple robe gored with many a wound.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. 910 He ran with full carriere at him, gored his horse [L. transfixo equo], and overthrew himselfe to the ground.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 474 They gore and spurre up the Ass to goe that way.
1690 in Wood Life 30 Aug. The two horses..pawed over the iron spikes... Their leggs are goar'd.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 713 Two rav'nous vultures..Incessant gore the liver in his breast.
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 229 Our lab'ring Steeds We press, we gore.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 6 As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gor'd without a pang.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix*. 274 No sooner didst thou fall to the ground mortally gored, as he deemed, with his weapon, than [etc.].
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1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. x. 310 Such of the defendents as durst sally out, being either cut in pieces in the trenches with the sword, or gored vpon the stakes.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. Ded. 47 Where the violence of the waters aggested the earth, goared out of the hollow valleys.
2. figurative and in extended use.1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 112 Aquinas..was called bos mutus, a dumbe Oxe; and..with two hornes..gored all unbeleevers.1646 S. Marshall Def. Infant-baptism 87 How you avoid being goared by the three hornes of my Syllogisme.1838 S. Smith 2nd Let. to Singleton 11 Billingsgate controversialists, who have tossed and gored an Unitarian.1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 76 The cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.
a. spec. Of a horned animal (esp. a bull or ox): To pierce with the horns. Also, rarely, of a boar: To wound with the tusk.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > thrust or gore with horn
putc1450
gore?1530
burt?1567
butt1590
horn1599
push1611
hipe1669
engage1694
sticka1896
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [verb (transitive)] > to wound with tusk (of boar)
gore?1530
ganch1621
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [verb (transitive)] > to pierce with the horns
gore?1530
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxxiv For elles the bestes with theyr hornes wyll put both the horses and the shepe, and gore them in theyr bellyes.
1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) II. vii. 62 The bull then gored him again with his horns.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 525 His tusks oblique he aim'd the knee to goar.
1810 T. Cogan Ethical Treat. Passions ii. §1 (1813) III. 105 We ascribe vices..to an ox that attempts to gore the attendants.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches iv. 188 My father narrowly escapes being gored by a furious ox.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xiv. 301 It is the nature of bulls to gore each other.
b. absol.; †also intransitive to gird at.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)]
heascenc1000
gabc1225
tita1400
knackc1425
scoff1530
flout1551
taunt1560
gird1573
beflout1574
scoff1578
gibe1582
flirt1593
gleek1593
to geck at1603
to gall ata1616
jeera1616
gorea1632
jest1721
fleer1732
chi-hike1874
chip1898
chip1898
to sling off (at)1911
jive1928
sound1958
wolf1966
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) v. sig. G Your wit is still goaring at my Ladies projects.
1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments ii. iii. 213 The dog that bites, the ox that gores, are both of them punished.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. viii. 160 He's like Giles Heathertap's auld boar; ye need but shake a clout at him to make him turn and gore.
1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 556 Five or six bulls had stamped and roared and gored and died.
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† gorev.2
Obsolete.
Only in gored, goring.
1. transitive. To cover with or as with gore, to besmear with, to dabble in blood. Only in past participle.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain or smear with blood
bebloodyc1210
bebleedc1230
begore?1518
blood1522
imbrue1529
bloody1530
gore1566
engore1593
sanguine1610
gild1614
beblood1623
bleed1634
ensanguine1667
bloodstain1798
vermilion1817
imbue1850
1566 T. Drant Wailyngs Hieremiah in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Kviij v Preists seruisable to Idols, And gorde in blessed blood.
a1592 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 338 His sides imbrued and gored with his own blood.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xvii. 328/2 The Battles ioined, and the Field goared with bloud, the day was lost vpon the Kings side.
1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. vii. 87 We haue seene the Theatre of this History, gored with great variety of bloud.
1655 Theophania 90 Many of them..lay gored in their own blood.
2. intransitive. To lie soaking in blood.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying
to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483
to draw on1484
to gasp up the ghost1577
gore1577
to turn one's face to the wall1579
to gasp one's last1603
groan1642
not to be long for this world1665
strugglea1674
to falter forth or out1814
to sprawl one's last1837
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 14/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They left them goaring in their bloude..and gasping vp their flitting goastes.
Derivatives
ˈgoring adj. that forms gore = gory n.
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1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 21 Goring bloode, had glutted gasers eye.
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gorev.3
/ɡɔː/, U.S. /ɡɔr/ 1. transitive. To cut into a gore or gores; to furnish with gores.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > other
pink1486
gore1548
apply1851
cord1870
tuft1884
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxvi Cloth of gold..set wyth cutte warkes of clothe of syluer plyghted goord fret and folded eche clothe vpon other.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 91 Sails, gored with a sweep.
1879 Scribner's Monthly 19 426/2 I should take out two of the back breadths for an over-skirt—yes—an' gore the others!
1893 G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 270 The next fashion was to gore the skirts in every width.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [verb (intransitive)] > swell or belly > swell or jut out (of part of sail)
gore1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 32 The Clew is..that which comes goring out from the square of the saile.
3. transitive. To plough a ‘gore’. (See goring n.2)
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