Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GORE, n.² [Scot. gore or gair; Ice. geir; D. geer.]

1. A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part. Chaucer.
2. A slip or triangular piece of land. Cowel.
3. In heraldry, an abatement denoting a coward. It consists of two arch lines, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fees point. Encyc.