goring

Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of gore

1. The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting
2. A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width.

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

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

Etymology

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