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Gorget
King James Dictionary
GORG'ET, n. A piece of armor for defending the throat or neck a kind of breast-plate like a half-moon also, a small convex ornament worn by officers on the breast.
1. Formerly, a ruff worn by females.
2. In surgery, gorget, or gorgeret, is a cutting instrument used in lithotomy also, a concave or cannulated conductor, called a blunt gorget.
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Entry for 'Gorget'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/gorget.html.