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It's hard to find a good citation for 'or' as a verb, but Googling produces quite a few cases of 'ORed together' or 'OR'd together'—as in, having the logical operator applied to make a combination.
In heraldry, it's or. My understanding is many medieval heraldry terms were bastardized from middle French.
Here's what the OED says:
Etymology: derived from Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French or gold (9th cent. in Old French, earliest in fig. sense ‘wealth, riches’), derived from classical Latin aurum gold (see AURO-).
1. Gold (the metallic element). Obs. rare.
1437 Rolls of Parl. IV. 503/2 It be lefull to the Maire and Citezeins of ye Citee of Lincoln..to shipp..lx sakkes of Wolle, withoute any Subsidee of the said v Nobles of or.
2. Heraldry. Gold or yellow in armorial blazoning. One of the two metals, the other being argent.
Are you sure this is the spelling? In Latin, gold is "aurum" and in spanish, "oro", so this is probably a bastardized version of those.
a very useful conjunction indeed. Also used in medieval heraldry to indicate the color gold.