Can anyone give me a verifiable meaning for the word 'gore' (noun) which has some connection with water - possibly underground?

shantaram

'Gore' is generally associated with clotted blood. Jul 07 02, 9:14 AM

Teshman

Possibly you mean the word 'bore', commonly used in Australia and New Zealand to describe an artesian water supply, where a hole is drilled down into a water table, and the water either rises to the surface or is pumped up by a deep well lift pump such as a wind mill. Jul 07 02, 9:16 AM

col

Thanks, but neither of these apply. There is a small monument in Centennial Park here in Sydney which refers to a gore and seems to suggest an underground watercourse of some sort, but I can't find it in any dictionaries. There is also a street in London called Kensington Gore, although there is a meaning of a 'triangular piece of land' which may apply here.....or is there a stream running underneath it? Jul 07 02, 9:52 AM

Siskin

Col - I may have found it in an incredibly archaic dictionary - called 'The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary. Gore 1.noun. A triangular piece sewed into a dress,a sail, a balloon etc. to widen it out at any {part;} a triangular piece of {land;} a curved abatement cut from a shield, origin,denoting cowardice.vt. To make into or shape as a gore. 2.vt. To pierce,a spear,to {stab;} to to pierce with or as a horn-like point. 3.noun. A minute fresh-water alga, Palmella cruenta, coating damp walls in shady places with rosy glutinous patches. I do hope one of these is what your after. Jul 07 02, 11:24 AM

Tabby Tom

The Oxford English Dictionary ('OED') suggests that 'gore' in the sense of a triangular piece of land (or material) is from the same root as the Old English 'gar' meaning a spear. The OED has another obsolete word 'gore' (with variants gorce, gort, gors and goss) which is derived from the Latin 'gurges', a whirlpool. Its basic meaning is whirlpool, but it seems more usually to have meant a dam or weir on a river. Jul 08 02, 10:55 AM

col	A belated thanks TT. Your second, archaic meaning seems to be the one. Wish I had a big old OED! My two different one vol. dictionaries just aren't that detailed. Jul 14 02, 3:02 PM

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