2. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn
over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other
steel armor.
Unfix the gorget's iron clasp. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of
gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers
in full uniform in some modern armies.
4. A ruff worn by women. [Obs.]
5. (Surg.)
(a) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
(b) A grooved instrunent used in performing various
operations; -- called also {blunt gorget}.
--Dunglison.