Gorget

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gorget \Gor"get\, n. [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See
     {Gorge}, n.]
     1. 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.


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     2. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn
        over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other
        steel armor.
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              Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.        --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     3. 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.
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     4. A ruff worn by women. [Obs.]
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     5. (Surg.)
        (a) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
        (b) A grooved instrunent used in performing various
            operations; -- called also {blunt gorget}.
            --Dunglison.
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     6. (Zool.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a
        bird or mammal.
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     {Gorget hummer} (Zool.), a humming bird of the genus
        {Trochilus}. See {Rubythroat}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gorget
       n : armor plate that protects the neck