gorget
['gɔ:dʒit]
n. 护喉甲, (女)肩布, 项链

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gorget
[ noun ]
armor plate that protects the neck
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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.

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. (Zo["o]l.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of
a bird or mammal.

{Gorget hummer} (Zo["o]l.), a humming bird of the genus
{Trochilus}. See {Rubythroat}.