goring
noun, adjective, proper noun
Also a form of gore
Forms gorings
- noun The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting
- noun (textiles) A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width.
- adjective (nautical) Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail.
- proper noun A village in Goring-on-Thames parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames (OS grid ref SU6080).
- proper noun A ward in Worthing borough, West Sussex, England, short for Goring-by-Sea (OS grid ref TQ1102)
- proper noun A habitational surname from Old English.
Synonyms
Goring-on-Thames Goering Hermann Goring Hermann Goering Hermann Wilhelm Goring
Etymology
From Old English Garingas (“people of Gara”), a short form of the various compound names with the first element gār (“spear, arrow, dart”).
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “goring”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details