gorget
gorget is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. 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.
- noun. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A ruff worn by women.
- noun. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
- noun. A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
- noun. A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
- noun. armor plate that protects the neck
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