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gore

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1. gore - Noun

2. gore - Verb

4. Gore - Proper noun

Meaning

Dirt; mud.

Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

A small traingular piece of land.

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

To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.

To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry. Lewis M. Branscomb

One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind-dealing with Texas-is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony. Robert E. Howard

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways. Ingrid Newkirk

God does not give horns to a cow that likes to gore. Russian Proverb

Go slowly and come slowly so that the cat won't gore you. Persian Proverb

Go softly, come softly, so that the cat does not gore you. Arabic Proverb

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