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Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. examples
Murder, bloodshed, violence. quotations examples
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
(obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth. quotations
As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms
third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored
(transitive, of an animal) To pierce with the horn. examples
(transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
plural gores
A triangular piece of land where roads meet. quotations 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
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
(surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error. examples
The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe examples
A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc. quotations examples
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
An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe. examples
A projecting point. examples
(heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fess point, considered an abatement. examples
To cut in a triangular form. examples
To provide with a gore. quotations examples
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 , column 3