Gore vs Lance - What's the difference?
gore | lance |
Dirt, filth.
(senseid)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
Murder, bloodshed, violence.
(of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
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.
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An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
A projecting point.
(heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
To cut in a triangular form.
To provide with a gore.
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
* 1590 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.
* 1909 , Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor , page 65.
A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part I, Act III, Scene II, line 49.
(fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
(military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
(military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
(founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
(pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
(medicine) A lancet.
To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
As a proper noun gore
is .As a verb lance is
.gore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- (Bishop Fisher)
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
Probably from .Verb
(gor)- The bull gored the matador.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Cowell)
- 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.
Verb
(gor)- to gore an apron
Anagrams
* * * * English terms with multiple etymologies English terms with unknown etymologies ----lance
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance ...
- The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the .
- What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
Derived terms
* free lance * lance bucket (cavalry) * lance corporal * lance fish (zoology) * lance knight * lance sergeant * lancer * lance snake (zoology) * stink-fire lance (military)Verb
(lanc)- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.