Gorget
Gorget , noun
[Old French 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.
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. [Obsolete]
5.
(a) (Surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
(b)
(Surgery) A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. — Dunglison
6.
(Zoology) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.