Crossword-Solution: GORGET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gorget | 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. |
| Gorget | 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. |
| Gorget | 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. |
| Gorget | n. | A ruff worn by women. |
| Gorget | n. | A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. |
| Gorget | n. | A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. |
| Gorget | n. | A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “GORGET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ornamental collar | 1 answer |
| Piece of armor at the throat. | 1 answer |
| Piece of armor to protect the throat. | 1 answer |
| Throat armor. | 1 answer |
| wimple | 4 answers |
| NECK ornament | 6 answers |
| CORSLET, part of | 6 answers |
| ARMOUR for body | 19 answers |
| Collar | 32 answers |
| armour | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GORGET (5)
There was a steel head-piece, a cuirass, a gorget and greaves, with a pair of gauntlets and a sword hanging beneath; all, and especially the helmet and breastplate, so highly burnished as to glow with white radiance, and scatter an illumination everywhere about upon the floor.
Ran it not so?—Prior, your collar is in danger; I will wear it over my gorget in the lists of Ashby-de-la-Zouche.” “Win it fairly,” said the Prior, “and wear it as ye will; I will trust your giving true response, on your word as a knight and as a churchman.
The younger had nearly hewn off the left leg of his enemy; and, grappled with in the act, had, while they rolled together on the earth, found for his dagger a passage betwixt the gorget and cuirass of the giant, and stabbed him mortally in the throat.
Then, fearing that it might be stolen from him by some vandals of the road, he had One Eye Kanty rivet it at each side of the gorget so that it could not be removed by other than a smithy, and thus, strapped face to tail upon a donkey, he sent the great Bishop of Norwich rattling down the dusty road with his head, at least, protected from the idle gaze of whomsoever he might chance to meet.
The space surrounding the lips is commonly fawn colour, or rich chestnut-brown; the star or vandyked circle rich red, pale vermilion, and sometimes the most brilliant emerald green, as brilliant as the gorget of a humming-bird.” And what does this exquisitely delicate creature do with its pretty mouth? Alas for fact! It sips no honey-dew, or fruits from paradise.—“I put a minute spider, as large as a pin’s head, into the water, pushing it down to the coral.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1951–1975).