English-Thai Dictionary
gorget
N ปลอก ป้องกัน คอ แถบ บน คอ สัตว์
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GORGET
n.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.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
GORGET
Gor "get, n. Etym: [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, n.]
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. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer (Zoöl.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.
New American Oxford Dictionary
gorget
gor get |ˈgôrjit ˈɡɔrʤət | ▶noun 1 historical an article of clothing that covered the throat. • a piece of armor for the throat. • a wimple. 2 a patch of color on the throat of a bird or other animal, esp. a hummingbird. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting a piece of armor protecting the throat ): from Old French gorgete, from gorge ‘throat ’ (see gorge ).
Oxford Dictionary
gorget
gorget |ˈgɔːdʒɪt | ▶noun 1 historical an article of clothing that covered the throat. • a piece of armour for the throat. • a wimple. 2 a patch of colour on the throat of a bird or other animal, especially a hummingbird. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting a piece of armour protecting the throat ): from Old French gorgete, from gorge ‘throat ’ (see gorge ).
The Wordsmith Dictionary