gorget

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

4. n. A ruff worn by women. Source: opted

5. n. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. Source: opted

6. n. A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Source: opted

7. n. A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Source: opted

8. n. armor plate that protects the neck Source: wordnet

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. Source: adambom

10. n:100 n. armor plate that protects the neck Source: ecdict

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