Yore vs Gore - What's the difference?
yore | gore |
(poetic) time long past
(obsolete) In time long past; long ago.
* Spenser
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.
As a noun yore
is area.As a proper noun gore is
.yore
English
Noun
(-)- This word comes from the days of yore .
Usage notes
A ; not used outside the phrase (of yore), especially the idiom days of yore.Adverb
(-)- Which though he hath polluted oft and yore , / Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.
Anagrams
*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