goring

Pluralgorings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of gore. Use it after 'is', 'are' or 'was', or to name the action itself.

   The angry bull kept goring the hay bale with its horns.

   A rhino charged the jeep, goring the door with its horn.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   An attack by an animal's horn, or the wound from it, most often from a bull in a bullfight.

   The bullfighter spent a month in the hospital after a bad goring.

   Rodeo clowns work hard to avoid gorings when they distract the bulls.

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A piece of cloth cut on a slant so that it looks wider.

   She cut a goring from the blue cloth for the new skirt.

   The gorings lay on the table, ready to be sewn.

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4. 4
   adjective

   Of a sail, cut on a slope so it is wider at the bottom corner than at the top.

   The little ship's top sail was goring, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.

   The sailmaker made a goring sail that gets wider toward its bottom corner.

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