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GORE . (1) (0. Eng. gor, dung or filth), a word formerly used in the sense of dirt, but now confined to See also:blood that has thickened after being See also:shed. (2) (O. Eng. gdra, probably connected with gore, an old word for " See also:spear "), something of triangular shape, resembling therefore a spear-See also:head. The word is used for a tapering See also:strip of See also:land, in the " See also:common or open See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field " See also:system of See also:agriculture, where from the shape of the land the See also:acre or See also:half-acre strips could not be portioned out in straight divisions. Similarly " gore " is used in the See also:United States, especially in See also:Maine and See also:Vermont, for a strip of land See also:left out in See also:surveying when divisions are made and boundaries marked. The triangular sections of material used in forming the covering of a See also:balloon or an See also:umbrella are also called " gores," and in dressmaking the See also:term is used for a triangular piece of material inserted in a See also:dress to adjust the difference in widths. To gore, i.e. to stab or See also:pierce with any See also:sharp See also:instrument, but more particularly used of piercing with the horns of a See also:bull, is probably directly connected with gare, a spear.
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