Crossword clues for gorget
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gorget \Gor"get\, n. [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, n.]
A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
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A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
--Sir W. Scott. A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
A ruff worn by women. [Obs.]
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(Surg.)
A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
--Dunglison.
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(Zo["o]l.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
Gorget hummer (Zo["o]l.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"armor for the throat," late 15c., from Old French gorgete, diminutive of gorge "throat" (see gorge (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A piece of armour for the throat. 2 (context historical English) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple. 3 An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc. 4 (context surgery English) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. 5 A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget. 6 (context zoology English) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
WordNet
n. armor plate that protects the neck
Wikipedia
A gorget , from the French gorge meaning throat, was originally a band of linen wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period, or the lower part of a simple chaperon hood. The term subsequently described a steel or leather collar designed to protect the throat, a set of pieces of plate armour, or a single piece of plate armour hanging from the neck and covering the throat and chest. Later, particularly from the 18th century onwards, the gorget became primarily ornamental, serving only as a symbolic accessory on military uniforms, a use which has survived to the modern day in some armies.
The term may also be used of other things such as items of jewellery worn around the throat region in a number of other cultures, for example wide thin gold collars found in Ireland dating to the Bronze Age.
A gorget is a patch of colored feathers found on the throat or upper breast of some species of birds. It is a feature found on many male hummingbirds, particularly those found in North America; these gorgets are typically iridescent. Other species, such as the purple-throated fruitcrow and chukar partridge, also show the feature. The term is derived from the gorget used in military armor to protect the throat.
Feather wear and exposure to the sun can produce changes in the apparent color of iridescent gorget feathers. For example, fresh gorget feathers on the Anna's hummingbird are rose red; these fade to a coppery bronzy color with age.
Usage examples of "gorget".
I had rather mount guard, for a week, in steel helmet and corselet, with breast, back, culet, gorget, tasses, sword, musket and bandoliers, in the hottest sun that ever roasted a blackamoor, or stand up to my knees, six months, in snow, without my mandilion, than lie a day longer in that ace--I mean that kennel of a lock-up.
With her swathes of dark hair streaming through the translucent wings and his shadowy locks cascading over the polished lames of his gorget and pauldrons, they made a breathtakingly striking couple.
Her arms were half-bare to the cool air, and her slender, fair neck uncased from its sheath of gorgetted steel.
The voivode laughed coolly, wiped the saliva from his gorget and reined his horse about.
Garric saw a Yole champion trying to swing his long sword despite the spear protruding from the gorget around his throat.
By then, one solid Anharu fist had slammed home on an Adelnan gorget, crumpling it and leaving the man behind it wheezing and strangling for air, toppling over backwards.
The pikemen, in addition to their immensely long pikes, had leather armour: breastplates and backplates, what they called gorgets to protect their throats, and helmets that they called pots.
Your brother, the High Lord, and I will not have your thews to help us bear the weight of plate in the coming battle, so we will wear only helms and cuirasses, plus gorgets, shoulderpieces, brassarts and kneecops, with our swords slung on our backs.
Your brother, the High Lord, and I will not have your thews to help us bear the weight of plate in the coming battle, so we will wear only helms and cuirasses, plus gorgets, shoulder pieces, brassarts and knee-cops, with our swords slung on our backs.
There are small spots on the fore neck, lower portion of the sides, and outside of the limbs, the spots in the neck forming an imperfect gorget.
He wore the black dress uniform of his Celestials and a crescent gorget with nine assorted sunburst insignia picked out in glittering gemstones against black enamel, to represent the star-systems under his governance.
He wears a slate frockcoat with claret silk lapels, a gorget of cream tulle, a green lowcut waistcoat, stock collar with white kerchief, tight lavender trousers, patent pumps and canary gloves.
Gorget was fleeing, plunging away from RV Tri-anguli out into the darkness.
Kane shifted his own lance suddenly, struck the other lance, felt it glance harmlessly across his vamplate—then his lance head angled upward to slide past his assailant’s shield, strike the angle of armet and gorget.
His hatchet flew, wheeling, spinning, to bury its keen flint edge to the thong wrapped handle, just where basinet did not quite meet gorget and red locks escaped, parted and severed, redder now than ever before.