Goring - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Goring :  (noun)

1: German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946) [syn: Goring, Goering, Hermann Goring, Hermann Goering, Hermann Wilhelm Goring]

Based on WordNet 2.0

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

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged 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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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