Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GORE, v.t. [W. gyru, to thrust; Gipsy, goro, a dagger. See Heb. כאר. Class Gr, No. 30, 35, 36, 53, 57, &c.]

1. To stab; to pierce; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear. Dryden.
2. To pierce with the point of a horn. If an ox gore a man or a woman. Ex. xxi.