Gore

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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) Dirt; mud.

2. (n.) Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

3. (n.) A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

4. (n.) A small triangular piece of land.

5. (n.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

6. (v. t.) To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.

7. (v. t.) To cut in a triangular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.


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