Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut or made so as to have a broadening slope; of a sail, cut sloping, so as to be broader at the clue than at the earing.
- noun A piece of textile material cut diagonally so as to increase the width of the part to which it is applied, or in a sail to give the required sweep. Also called
goring-cloth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
gore .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)
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Examples
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The publisher and editor of The Realist, Paul Krassner, specialized in goring sacred cows.
Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives 2006
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In the first of his weekly columns for Guardian Unlimited, Markos Moulitsas tells how US liberals have fought back against rightwing domination of the media since their 'goring' in 2000
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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The necessary clue appears as early as page 37, while Franken is having some easy fun tossing and goring the hapless Bernie Goldberg on the hoary old question of liberal bias in the media.
Cheap Laughs 2009
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And this weekend, the country's bullfighting sensation, Jose Tomas, returns to the ring after a year recovering from a near-fatal goring in Mexico.
Diane Francis: Spain Is Mucho Macho and too Big to Fail Diane Francis 2011
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The necessary clue appears as early as page 37, while Franken is having some easy fun tossing and goring the hapless Bernie Goldberg on the hoary old question of liberal bias in the media.
Cheap Laughs 2009
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Which is worse – the goring of the horse by the bull, or the goring of Colonel Jacinto Fierro by the bayonet in the hands of John Harned!
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And this weekend, the country's bullfighting sensation, Jose Tomas, returns to the ring after a year recovering from a near-fatal goring in Mexico.
Diane Francis: Spain Is Mucho Macho and too Big to Fail Diane Francis 2011
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The hills, to their tops, had been shorn of trees, and their naked sides showed signs of goring and perforating that even the mantle of snow could not hide.
Chapter XIII 2010
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As necessary as it is to our survival, I dont think we are ready for equal opportunity ox goring yet.
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"Not quite so," said I. "The lance of the picador is to keep the bull from goring the horse."
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