verb
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(of an animal) To pierce with the horn.
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The bull gored the matador.
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To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
verb
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To cut in a triangular form.
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To provide with a gore.
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to gore an apron
noun
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The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting
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A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width.
adjective
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Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail.
Examples of goring in a Sentence
Goring reported problems with blocked waste pipes to the Pavilion, which did not have the necessary manhole covers on them.
The slingback features side-stretch goring for a better fit and the foot bed is lightly padded.
The signboard of a wayside inn near Goring Heath in Oxfordshire long bore a portrait of the king with couplets reciting how his majesty "drank from the bowl, and bowl'd for what he drank."
In March he took Hillesden House in Buckinghamshire; in May was at the siege of Lincoln, when he repulsed Goring's attempt to relieve the town, and subsequently took part in Manchester's campaign in the north.
During the Civil War General Goring quartered his troops at Totnes, and Fairfax also made it his temporary station.
At Dorchester (951) the Thame enters on the left, and the river then passes Wallingford (904) and Goring (85).
Thus, the upper portion of the system, above the gap at Goring, is a basin in itself, defined on the west and south by the Cotteswold and White Horse Hills and on the east and north by the Chilterns and the uplands of Northamptonshire.
It may be noted further that the Kennet continues upward the line of the main valley below the Goring gap, and the Cherwell that of the main valley above it.
The basin thus presents interesting problems. The existence of wide valleys where the small upper waters of the Cherwell, Evenlode and Coln now flow, the occurrence of waterborne deposits in their beds from the northwest of England and from Wales, and the fact that the Thames, like its lower southern tributaries which pierce the North Downs, has been able to maintain a deep valley through the chalk elevation at Goring, are considered to point to the former existence of a much larger river, in the system of which were included the upper waters of the present Severn, Dee and other rivers of the west.
After this he served in the western campaign under Charles's own command, and towards the end of the war, after Lord Goring had left England,he succeeded to the command of the royal army, which his predecessor had allowed to waste away in indiscipline.
On the Royalist right was half the cavalry under Rupert; the infantry was in the centre in two lines and the left wing of cavalry was under General (Lord) Goring.
On the Parliamentary right, Goring had swept away the Yorkshire horse, and although most of his troopers had followed in disorderly pursuit, Sir Charles Lucas with some squadrons was attacking the exposed right of Leven's infantry.
Then, on the ground where Goring had routed Fairfax, Cromwell and Leslie won an easy victory over Goring's scattered and disordered horsemen.
April-November 1933 - The Gestapo were only answerable to Goring.
Urgent orders were sent to Lord Goring to rejoin the main royalist army with his cavalry.
Mr George Goring has been laying down wines for the future delectation of his customers for many a long year.
Owing, however, to the mutual jealousies and misconduct of Goring and Grenville, and the prince's own disregard and contempt of the council, his presence was in no way advantageous, and could not prevent the final overthrow of the king's forces in 1646.