In road and highway construction, a gore or nose is a triangular plot of land, not to be driven on, where a road forks at the intersection with a second road, or merges on and off from a larger one. G
Highway exit gore in Gdańsk, Poland, with a transversely lined "theoretical gore", followed by a grass-covered physical one
Two diverging white lines demarcate the theoretical gore of this highway exit on Interstate 40 in Arkansas, with a grass-covered physical gore following it: In this instance, the theoretical gore contains no markings.