Chapter Good-by to Gore of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture called tenné. Like the other abatements it is a modern fancy and not actually used.

Gore
(Gore), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Goring.] [OE. gar spear, AS. gr. See 2d Gore.] To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.

The low stumps shall gore
His daintly feet.

Coleridge.

Gore
(Gore), v. t. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.