Gore

[A.S. gor, clotted blood; W. gôr; Gr. ichōr.] Blood; more especially clotted or congealed blood. [A.S. gar, a javelin, a dart, from its pointed or triangular shape: Icel. geiri, a three-cornered piece of cloth.] A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part. A piece of land triangular in shape. (Her.) A charge consisting of one third of the shield cut off by two arched lines, one drawn from the dexter or sinister chief, and the other from the bottom of the escutcheon, meeting in the fe point. A Gore sinister is enumerated by heralds as one of the abatements or marks of dishonor borne for unknightly conduct. See GUSSET. Gore, v . a. To cut in a triangular Fig . 1181.-GORE. form. To stab or pierce with a pointed instrument, as a spear, or with the point of a horn. "And poles with pointed steel their foes in battle gore."-Dryden. -To pierce with the point of a horn.