gore

plural gores

1. uncountableusuallyBlood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. countableobsoleteusuallyA 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. uncountableusuallyCarnage, 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. uncountableusuallyPictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
5. uncountableusuallyobsolete except in dialectsDirt, 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

present singular third person gores · participle present goring · participle past gored · past gored

1. obsoletetransitiveTo cover or smear with blood.

present singular third person gores · participle present goring · participle past gored · past gored

1. transitiveTo pierce with a horn or tusk.

   The bull gored the matador.

   Synonyms: horn

2. obsoletetransitiveTo pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

   Synonyms: jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin

3. figurativelyintransitiveobsoletetransitiveTo needle or wound the feelings of.

plural gores

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

   Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.

   2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page 10-97

   2 more examples

   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 Geometrics, page 448

   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. archaicdialectalA triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
3. USgeographyA 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. governmentA 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.

present singular third person gores · participle present goring · participle past gored · past gored

1. To cut into a triangular form.
2. To provide with a gore.

   to gore an apron

   1 more example

   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 her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.^([sic])

   1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3

plural Gores

1. countableuncountableA surname.

   Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.

   1 more example

   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. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableA town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.
   2. countableuncountableA territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town; in full, Gore District.
   3. countableuncountableA small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.
   4. countableuncountableGore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.
   5. countableuncountableA rural community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Charles Stephen Gore.
   6. countableuncountableA township municipality in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Francis Gore.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
   8. countableuncountableA township in Huron County, Michigan.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
   10. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
   11. countableuncountableA town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.
   12. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia.