Thesaurus: gorget

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1. n. 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. n. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
3. n. 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. n. A ruff worn by women.
5. n. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
6. n. A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
7. n. A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
8. n. armor plate that protects the neck
9. A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird ormammal. Gorget hummer (Zoöl.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus.See Rubythroat.
10. n:100 n. armor plate that protects the neck