Definitions for Goring

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Goring gor·ing

Spelling: [gawr-ing, gor-]

IPA: /ˈgɔr ɪŋ, ˈgɒr-/

Goring is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Goring (gginor).

Definitions for Goring

noun

1. the triangular area along a leech of a square sail, created by the presence of a gore.
2. Hermann Wilhelm [her-mahn vil-helm,, hur-muh n-wil-helm;; German her-mahn vil-helm] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˈvɪl hɛlm,, ˈhɜr mənˈwɪl hɛlm;; German ˈhɛr mɑn ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, German field marshal and Nazi party leader.
3. a triangular piece of material inserted in a garment, sail, etc., to give it greater width or a desired shape. Compare godet (def 1), gusset (def 1).
4. one of the panels, usually tapering or shaped, making up a garment, as a skirt.
5. a triangular tract of land, especially one lying between larger divisions.

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce with or as if with a horn or tusk.
2. to make or furnish with a gore or gores.

Origin of Goring

First recorded in 1620-30; gore³ + -ing¹

Examples for Goring

Mr. goring approached, and said something in a low voice to the judge.

goring and I picked him reverently up and laid him on his bed.

goring bowed his head, and Roland fell powerless on the floor.

goring labored hard to dissuade him from his resolve, but to no purpose.

The guards had either been withdrawn, or goring had arranged matters with them.

In the car on the way, there was a story on the radio of a goring in Pamplona.

Mr. goring, whom I had seen in the morning, was to have the one next mine.

"To be able to display Her Majesty's coat of arms is something that the staff will be enormously proud of," goring said.

"I did not say as much as you have inferred," replied goring.

He attacks it as a bull a red cloak, goring it, stamping on it, tearing it to shreds.