Gorget vs Gorger - What's the difference?
gorget | gorger |
(historical) A piece of armour for the throat.
* 1663 ,
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1968 , (Michael Moorcock), The Mad God's Amulet , Gollancz 2003, p. 209:
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 500:
(historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
* 1917 , (Washington Irving), :
(surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
(zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between gorget and gorger
is that gorget is (historical) a piece of armour for the throat while gorger is one who gorges.gorget
English
Noun
(en noun)- About his neck a threefold gorget , / As rough as trebled leathern target
- Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
- Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget .
- Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
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- (Dunglison)