gore

GORE, noun [Gr. from issuing.] 1. Blood; but generally, thick or clotted blood; blood that after effusion becomes inspissated. 2. Dirt; mud. [Unusual.] GORE, noun 1. A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part. 2. A slip or triangular piece of land. 3. In heraldry, an abatement denoting a coward. It consists of two arch lines, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fess point. GORE, verb transitive 1. To stab; to pierce; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear. 2. To pierce with the point of a horn. If an ox gore a man or a woman--Exodus 21:28.