gore

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To pierce or stab with a horn or tusk.
• noun A triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail.
• noun A small triangular piece of land.
• transitive verb To provide with a gore.
• transitive verb To cut into a gore.
• noun Blood, especially coagulated blood from a wound.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To shape like a gore; cut or treat so as to form a gore.
• To furnish with a gore or gores, as a dress-skirt or a sail.
• To pierce; penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear or a horn; wound deeply.
• To scoop; dig.
• noun A relatively long and narrow triangular strip or slip; a projecting point. Specifically
• noun A triangular piece or tapering strip of land.
• noun In Maine and Vermont, and formerly in Massachusetts, an unorganized and thinly settled subdivision of a county.
• noun A triangular piece or strip of material inserted to make something, as a garment or a sail, wider in one part than in another; especially, in dressmaking, a long triangle introduced to make a skirt wider at the bottom or hem than at the waist. See goring.
• noun A part of the dress; hence, the dress itself; a garment.
• noun An angular plank used in fitting a vessel's skin to the frames.
• noun In heraldry, a charge consisting of two curved lines, one from the sinister chief point, the other from the base middle point, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fesse-point. Also called gusset.
• noun Dirt; mud. [Prov. Eng.]
• noun Blood that is shed or drawn from the body; thick or clotted blood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Dirt; mud.
• noun Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
• transitive verb To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore.
• transitive verb To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
• noun A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
• noun A small traingular piece of land.
• noun (Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb of an animal To pierce with the horns.
• noun A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
• noun 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.
• noun An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
• noun A projecting point.
• verb To cut in a triangular form.
• verb To provide with a gore.
• noun obsolete except in dialects Dirt, filth.
• noun Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
• noun Murder, bloodshed, violence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun coagulated blood from a wound
• verb wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
• noun the shedding of blood resulting in murder
• verb cut into gores
• noun a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
• noun Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)