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blunt gorget

Gorget \Gor"get\, n. [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, n.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. A ruff worn by women. [Obs.]

  5. (Surg.)

    1. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.

    2. A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
      --Dunglison.

  6. (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.