Gorget /(?)/

Gor·get

Gorget

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.
  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. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. (Surg.)
  6. A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds
Gorget hummer
a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.