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Webster 1913 Edition

Gorget

Gor′get

,
Noun.
[OF.
gorgete
, dim. of
gorge
throat. See
Gorge
,
Noun.
]
1.
A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
2.
A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
Unfix the
gorget’s
iron clasp.
Sir W. Scott.
3.
A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
4.
A ruff worn by women.
[Obs.]
5.
(Surg.)
(a)
A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
(b)
A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; – called also
blunt gorget
.
Dunglison.
6.
(Zool.)
A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
Gorget hummer
(Zool.)
,
a humming bird of the genus
Trochilus
. See
Rubythroat
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gorget

GORG'ET

,
Noun.
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.
1.
Formerly, a ruff worn by females.
2.
In surgery, gorget, or gorgeret, is a cutting instrument used in lithotomy; also, a concave or cannulated conductor, called a blunt gorget.

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