A cresent-shaped map of a region of the Earth between two lines of longitude, which may be fitted to the surface of a globe with a minimum of distortion.
A thin triangular piece of land, the boundaries of which are defined by surveys of adjacent properties. Loosely, an overlap or gap between properties. See also strip.
A triangular piece of material inserted in a garment, sail, etc., to give it greater width or a desired shape. Also referred to as a "godet" or "gusset". A gore can also be one of the panels, usually tapering or shaped, making up a garment, as a skirt.
A piece of land which tapers to a point, normally ploughed across the field therefore giving reducing furrow lengths towards the point.
Garment section; usually larger at the bottom than the top.
A panel that is narrow at the top and widens towards the base (triangular in shape). General sewing term.
An elastic panel stitched into either side of a shoe's vamp in order to make it more comfortable and easier to put on and take off.
A small triangular piece of land.
A piece of woven, elastic fabric used to connect the sides of a slip-on shoe. The gore enhances the fit.
A small parcel of land, usually triangular in shape, resulting form the failure of a legal description to join 2 tracts. (Also called Hiatus).
cut into gores; "gore a skirt"
a long triangular shaped piece sewn between the body of the tipi and the smoke flaps
a narrow, triangular piece of land
a part of a township that does not fit into the regular shape
a triangular piece of material, such as would be used to make a skirt, and this smallholding was so named because of the shape of its land
A map section that is applied to a globe ball.
Canoe-shaped section of a globe surface on which a portion of a map is drawn. Gores, glued to the surface of a globe, show an image of the world.
A section of cloth that makes up the envelope. This spindle-shaped section is itself made up of several smaller pieces of cloth called panels. ( Envelope, Panel)
A sliver of land usually of triangular shape between two tracts, resulting from failure of land descriptions to adjoin.
Wedge of arable land created by irregularity of terrain and plowing in strips.
A very small, typically useless and triangular strip of land sandwiched between two parcels. Gores are created when poor subdivision or surveying creates a leftover sliver that should otherwise have been included with one of the adjoining parcels.
A section of a globe printed on paper, intended to be cut out and pasted together to form a spherical shape, - usually elongated.
A panel in a garment. In shoes, a gore is commonly an elastic panel stitched into either side of the vamp in order to make it more comfortable and easier to put on and take off. A gored skirt is made of several vertical panels.
A shaped panel, generally in a skirt, which increases in width towards the hem or lower edge.
A skirt section that is wider at the hem than at the top, providing a fullness and shaping to the waist without using darts, and a trumpeted look. There may be as many as 24 gores in a skirt, although usually there are eight, four or six.
A gore, gore point, or gore zone is the (chiefly American English) name for a triangular piece of land found where roads merge or split. When two roads merge, the area is sometimes referred to as a merge nose. The term "gore" probably originates from the dressmaker's term for a triangular piece of cloth.