gorget

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gor=get

CIDE DICTIONARY

gorget, n. [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.  [1913 Webster]

  "Unfix the gorget's iron clasp."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A ruff worn by women.  [1913 Webster]
•  A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
•  A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.  [1913 Webster]

Gorget hummer (Zoöl.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gorget, n.
1 hist. a a piece of armour for the throat. b a woman's wimple.
2 a patch of colour on the throat of a bird, insect, etc.

Etymology

OF gorgete (as GORGE)