gorer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gorer (plural gorers)
- Someone or something that gores (typically an animal that gores other creatures).
- 1873, Eugene O'Curry, On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish - Volume 2, page 236:
- Sreng then explains that the name of the weapon is Craisech ; that they are " gorers of flesh", and " crushers of bones", and " breakers of shields", and that their thrust or stroke is death, or perpetual mutilation.
- 1992, Roman A. Ohrenstein, Barry Gordon, Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature: Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics, E. J. Brill, page 12:
- An example of the talmudic reasoning in this regard is the case where the defendant sold an ox to the claimant, and the ox was found to be a gorer. The claimant now wants his money back on the ground that his purchase was a “mistaken transaction”. Most people, it can be allowed, acquire an ox for purposes of ploughing, and a gorer is not satisfactory for that purpose.
- 1997, Fergus Kelly, Early Irish Farming: A Study Based Mainly on the Law-Texts of the 7th and 8th Centuries AD, page 507:
- These are the defects of a cow so that she is to be returned: (3) i.e. if her teats do not produce a full milk-yield, (4) if they are short, (5) if she is three-teated, (6) if she is a gorer, (7) if she is a kicker, (8) if she does not lover her calf...
- 2013, Platte F. Clark, Bad Unicorn, →ISBN, page 8:
- “Well, at the very least, I'm sure we're known as stabbers and gorers?” Magar thought better of answering.