Meaning of gorget | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
   historical
2. A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
   historical
3. A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
   historical
4. An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
5. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
6. A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
7. A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
8. A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
   Cornwall, UK, dialectal

Equivalents

Examples

“About his neck a threefold gorget, / As rough as trebled leathern target⟳”

“Unfix the gorget's iron⟳ clasp.”

“Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward⟳, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget.”

“Renly lifted his chin to allow⟳ Brienne to fasten his gorget in place⟳.”

“I heard he presented Hygd with a gorget, the priceless torque that the prince's daughter Wealhtheow, had given him.”

“There was […] the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage […]”

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