goring

goring means cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail.

Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, goring ranks #12,008 of 42,747 for Qualifying.

Etymology

From Old English Garingas (“people of Gara”), a short form of the various compound names with the first element gār (“spear, arrow, dart”).

adj

Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail.

A village in Goring-on-Thames parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames (OS grid ref SU6080).
A ward in Worthing borough, West Sussex, England, short for Goring-by-Sea (OS grid ref TQ1102)
A habitational surname from Old English.

The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfightinge.g.“The only thing that might make me play is if you get bonus points for either broken pelvises or fatal rodeo-clown gorings.” — 2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie, page 15:
A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width.

Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

gored 73% match — Having a gore or gores. vs goring →
gorer 72% match — Someone or something that gores (typically an animal that gores other creatures). vs goring →
engore 66% match — To gore, pierce, or lacerate. vs goring →
goading 61% match — The act by which somebody is goaded. vs goring →
gouging 55% match — The act of one who gouges. vs goring →
gorging 54% match — The act of one who gorges, or eats to satiety. vs goring →
gride 54% match — To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab. vs goring →
hornedness 54% match — The condition of being horned. vs goring →