Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Goring \Gor"ing\, or Goring cloth \Gor"ing cloth`\, n., (Naut.)
A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
Gore \Gore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Goring}.] [OE. gar spear, AS. g?r. 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.
Source : WordNet®
Goring
n : German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo
and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946) [syn: {Goering},
{Hermann Goring}, {Hermann Goering}, {Hermann Wilhelm
Goring}]