Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Goring"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Goring \Gor"ing\, or Goring cloth \Gor"ing cloth`\, n., (Naut.)
A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gore \Gore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Goring}.] [OE. gar spear, AS. g?r. See 2d {Gore}.]
To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a
pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet.
--Coleridge.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Goring
n : German Nazi politician who founded the Gestapo and mobilized
Germany for war (1893-1946) [syn: {Goring}, {Goering}, {Hermann
Goring}, {Hermann Goering}, {Hermann Wilhelm Goring}, {Hermann
Wilhaelm Goering}]
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