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gorp | gore |

As a noun gorp

is a loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.

As a proper noun gore is

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gorp

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Alternative forms

* GORP

Noun

(-)
  • A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.
  • *1985 , , Knopf, ISBN 039454689X, chapter 19,
  • *:"They were living in their pajamas so as not to have too much laundry. They were eating gorp for their suppers."
  • *:"I'm not even going to ask what gorp is," Sarah said,
  • *:"It's a mixture of wheat germ and nuts and dried—"
  • *1996: Brian M. Parks, gorp in rec.backcountry
  • *:...also take some cheese and hard salami and crackers which are normally not contained in gorp' to give even more variety. variety is the key here, and a bag of '''gorp''' curtails this.....unless of course you wish to pack ten different varieties of ' gorp with you :^)

    • Synonyms

    * scroggin * trail mix

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    gore

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Dirt, filth.
    • (Bishop Fisher)
  • (senseid)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  • Murder, bloodshed, violence.
    • Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    Probably from .

    Verb

    (gor)
  • (of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
    • The bull gored the matador.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
    • (Cowell)
  • 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.
  • *
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (gor)
  • To cut in a triangular form.
  • To provide with a gore.
    • to gore an apron

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