Definition of "gores" [gores]

• Plural form of gore. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gore. (verb)

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• "Usually these balloons have 8 or 12 panels (called gores) that make up the shape."
• "All you've got to do, on your side, is to survey in such a way that the "gores" will fall on good fat land, then you turn 'em over to me, I stock 'em with cattle, in rolls the cash, I plank out your share of the dollars regular, right along, and -- '"
• "Well, I know, and you know, that all along a line that 's being surveyed, there 's little dabs of land that they call "gores," that fall to the surveyor free gratis for nothing."