Meaning

noun Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)

noun coagulated blood from a wound

noun a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails

originFrom Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0