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Goring

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.

Goring

Goring \Gor"ing\, or Goring cloth \Gor"ing cloth`\, n., (Naut.) A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

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goring

n. The act by which something is gored. vb. (present participle of gore English)

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Göring (disambiguation)

Hermann Göring (1893–1946) was a leading member of the Nazi Party.

Göring may also refer to:

  • Göring (surname)
  • Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier Division 2 Hermann Göring, a division formed in the area of Radom
  • Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring, a Luftwaffe armoured division
  • Göring attack, or Evans Gambit
  • Göring gambit, a variation of the Scotch Game, related to the Danish Gambit
Goring

Goring may refer to:

Göring (surname)

Göring, also spelled Goering, is a German surname (not to be confused with the English surname Goring). Notable people with this surname include the following:

  • Hermann Göring (1893–1946), a leading member of the Nazi Party
    • Albert Göring (1895–1966), German businessman, brother of Hermann Göring
    • Carin Göring (1888–1931), Swedish first wife of Hermann Göring
    • Edda Göring (born 1938), daughter of Hermann Göring
    • Emmy Göring (1893–1973), German actress and second wife of Hermann Göring
    • Heinrich Ernst Göring (1839–1913), German jurist, colonial governor of German South-West Africa, father of Hermann Göring
  • Carl Göring (1841–1879), German master of chess and philosopher
  • Franz Göring (born 1984), German cross country skier
  • Matthias Göring (1879–1945), founder of the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy
Goring (surname)

Goring is an English surname (not to be confused with the German surname Göring). Notable people with this surname include the following:

  • Goring baronets
  • Alison Goring (born 1963), Canadian curler
  • Butch Goring (born 1949), retired Canadian hockey player
  • Charles Goring, 2nd Earl of Norwich (1615–1671)
  • Charles Buckman Goring (1870–1919), English criminologist
  • Frederick S. Goring (1923–1989), first Lord Mayor of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
  • George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich (1585–1663)
  • George Goring, Lord Goring (1608–1657), English Civil War general
  • Henry Goring and Harry Goring, several people
  • Marius Goring (1912–1998), English actor
  • Peter Goring (1927–1994), English footballer
  • Trevor Goring (born 1949-, English visual artist
  • William Goring (1811–1849), English cricketer
  • William Goring (disambiguation), several people

Usage examples of "goring".

At the age of three months, Goring was parted from his parents, who went to Haiti for three years, where his father was the German consul general.

Though he was judged unfit to serve in the infantry because of his physical incapacity, Goring joined the Luftwaffe.

During the trial of the men charged with burning the Reichstag building, Goring made wild accusations.

It was highly probable that Hitler would have no child, and he had named Goring as his successor.

Hitler blamed Goring for both, though it was Hitler’s decision to bomb the English cities instead of first wiping out the Royal Air Force bases that was responsible for the Germans’ plight.

But, Goring, loving Sweden, had threatened to resign if Sweden was attacked.

When Goring was several thousand miles from Parolando, he began hearing rumors of the great falling star, the meteorite, that had struck down-River.

The Hermann Goring before you is not the man of the same name who lived on Earth.

After a year there, Goring had adopted the Esperanto name of Fenikso (Phoenix).

It’s the old Hermann Goring, still alive down there, though I thought I had put him away forever.

When Goring was introduced to him as Brother Fenikso, La Viro’s emissary and a subbishop, Burton bowed.

On entering, Goring saw the American, Peter Jairus Frigate, and the Englishwoman, Alice Hargreaves, playing billiards.

Well, Goring thought, it has been nearly sixty years since we last saw each other.

The true reason probably was that Goring, if revealed, would then reveal Burton.

As one who’d been the second-in-command of the German empire and thus had met many of the world’s greats, Goring was not easily awed or bamboozled.