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Gorge   /gɔrdʒ/   Listen
noun
Gorge  n.  
1.
The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. "Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain." "Now, how abhorred!... my gorge rises at it."
2.
A narrow passage or entrance; as:
(a)
A defile between mountains.
(b)
The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; usually synonymous with rear.
3.
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. "And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest."
4.
A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
5.
(Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
6.
(Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
7.
(Angling) A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.
Circle of the gorge (Math.), a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis.
Gorge fishing, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.
Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead.


verb
Gorge  v. t.  (past & past part. gorged; pres. part. gorging)  
1.
To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. "The fish has gorged the hook."
2.
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. "The giant gorged with flesh." "Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite."


Gorge  v. i.  To eat greedily and to satiety.





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"Gorge" Quotes from Famous Books



... grand-daughter of this Kenneth Duff, and, prompted by ambition and revenge, instigated her husband to the murder of his Sovereign and guest—the gracious Duncan, grandson of Malcolm II., at Bothgowan, near Elgin. Loch Turret lies in the gorge that separates Benchonrie from the Blue Craig. It is likely enough that the descendants of the wild fowl that Robert Burns scared on the occasion of his visit to Ochtertyre still nest ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various
... So george, gorge, Gomorrha, Esau, Hus or uz, Nubes, Ragau, Joshua, where ([V] [v]) is the first letter in the four first, middlemost in fist, a in the last all wrong. That no wonder if the Bible Translators took up the blanket, and left the Child behind 'em, when St. Hierom says, the Hebrew Letters ...
— Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) • G. W.
... of the dialogue which ensued was that, after the train had entered the gorge of the larger canon, Coronado and Clara turned back and wandered up the smaller one, followed at a distance by Texas Smith. In twenty minutes they were separated from the wagons by a barrier of sandstone several hundred ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
... and her apple," said the student, and taking Phoebus's arm. "By the way, my dear captain, you just mentioned the Rue Coupe-Gueule* That is a very bad form of speech; people are no longer so barbarous. They say, Coupe-Gorge**." ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... hill to the westward at sunset, has a peculiarly happy and peaceful look. It lies on a level, surrounded by hills, and seems as if it lay in the hollow of a large hand. The Union Village may be seen, a manufacturing place, extending up a gorge of the hills. It is amusing to see all the distributed property of the aristocracy and commonalty, the various and conflicting interests of the town, the loves and hates, compressed into a space which ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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