Gorge
Gorge , noun
[French gorge, Late Latin gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. from Latin gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; compare Sanskrit gargara whirlpool, gr to devour. Compare Gorget.]
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
(a)
A defile between mountains.
(b)
The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
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.
(Architecture) A concave molding; a cavetto. — Gwilt
6.
(Nautical) 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.
Collocations (4)
Gorge circle (Gearing) , the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.
Circle of the gorge (Mathematics) , 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. — Knight
Gorge , transitive verb
[French gorger. See Gorge, n.]
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 , intransitive verb
To eat greedily and to satiety. — Milton