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Answer for the clue "Bull-ring wound ", 4 letters:
gore

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Word definitions for gore in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Scottish gorren "to pierce, stab," origin unknown, perhaps related to Old English gar "spear" (see gar , also gore (n.2) "triangular piece of ground"). Related: Gored ; goring .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gore \Gore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Goring .] [OE. gar spear, AS. g?r. See 2d Gore .] To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. --Coleridge. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete except in dialects English) dirt, filth. 2 (senseid en thickened)blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. 3 murder, bloodshed, violence. Etymology 2 vb. (context of an animal English) ...

Usage examples of gore.

It would be awfully difficult for Gore to catch up to Bush before December 12unless a court disqualified enough Bush overseas absentee votes.

Gore effort to challenge absentee votes on a legal technicality, especially since the intent of these voters was quite clear.

But now the trumpets blew a fanfare, and forth rode divers gallant knights, who, spurring rearing steeds, charged amain to gore, to smite and batter each other with right good will while the concourse shouted, caps waved and scarves and ribands fluttered.

Dole, Gingrich, Armey, Daschle, and Gephardt were there, as were Al Gore, Leon Panetta, Bob Rubin, Laura Tyson, and other members of our team.

Gore was a newcomer in the League ranks, he hailing from New Bedford, but he soon made for himself a name, being a first-class fielder and a batsman that was away above the average, as is shown by his record made in after years.

Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.

In the last half-hour, as the two ships closed, the Biter signalled her intentions exceeding clearly, and the Noble Goring, as the trader was bizarrely named, ignored them with plodding insouciance.

With hands dripping gore, the crowd fought over detached plates of armor, a boot, a triblaster with a shattered receiver and delaminated muzzle.

Harton is terribly cut up, for he was fond of little Doddy, and Goring seems sorry too.

They had to come back and own that they were beat, which put Goring in a rage and made the inspector, Sir Ferdinand Morringer, blow them all up for a lot of duffers and old women.

Most leviathans had an innate primal fear of the rays, so that even they avoided being gored or envenomed, and even the larger ships often panicked and quit the field.

Gore thanking you and your colleagues for all the help with the Feoffees Pageant.

And dire to tell, the sacred wine she bore 565 Fell from the cup in fleaks of clotted gore.

III On bruise and blood-hole, scar and seam, On blade and bolt, he flung his fulgid beam: His haloes rayed the very gore, And corpses wore his glory-gleam.

Gore, and none other than Queen Morgan le Fay, the famous enchantress, who for loss of her gerfalcon was lightly sending Sir Dinar to his ruin.