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.
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.
Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
Sir W. Scott.
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.
4. A ruff worn by women. [Obs.]
5. (Surg.) (a) A
cutting instrument used in lithotomy. (b)
A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; --
called also blunt gorget. Dunglison.
6. (Zoöl.) A crescent-shaped,
colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
Gorget hummer (Zoöl.), a humming
bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.