Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GORG'ET, n. [Fr. gorgette, from gorge.]

1. A piece of armor for defending the throat or neck; a kind of breast-plate like a half-moon; also, a small convex ornament worn by officers on the breast. Encyc. Chalmers.
2. Formerly, a ruff worn by females.
3. In surgery, gorget, or gorgeret, is a cutting instrument used in lithotomy; also, a concave or cannulated conductor, called a blunt gorget. Cyc. Encyc.