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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

... Trent, go far to prove that the Trent, instead of, as it does now, flowing into the Humber, took a more easterly course, and joining forces with the Witham some miles above Lincoln, the united streams pushed their way through the gorge, or “break” in the cliff formation, which occurs there, and is technically known as “The Lincoln Gap,” and continued their course to the sea by something like the present channel of the Witham. The idea ...

— Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter • J. Conway Walter

... and see the sights. Look, Miss Inna, that jutting rock yonder, by the sea, is Swallow's Cliff, and behind it is a little bay;" and then he drew her away to look down the Ugly Leap. A dizzy height it was to gaze down from above, with a deep gorge at its foot, in which a stream of water gurgled, said by some to have a connection with Black Hole, the lad told her; over which Inna shuddered ...

— The Heiress of Wyvern Court • Emilie Searchfield

... above a dark, round face. Instantly you knew him for one of the effusive Semitic type; every angle and turn of his outward aspect testified frankly of his breed and his sort. And at sight of him entering you could almost see the gorge of Deputy Commissioner Donohue's race antagonism rising inside of him. His gray hackles stiffened and his thick-set eyebrows bristled outward like bits of frosted privet. Again he began whetting his forefinger ...

— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb

... doctor had said it was not poison. But there was much talk about it, and folk seemed unconvinced. I never learnt the truth of it. The route at length being open, we crossed the swift Tara at the bottom of a deep gorge on a most primitive ferry of seven planks lashed together in a triangle, and the Turkish gendarmerie on the opposite bank furnished guide and horses. Krsto had to leave his revolver behind, and having never in his life been ...

— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith

... hearing of the Pali ever since we landed. It is a cliff approached by a gorge, whence one of those unpronounceable and unspellable kings once drove his enemies headlong into the sea. We could not miss a scene so provocative of sensations as this, so several of us teachers and an army nurse or two packed ourselves into a wagonette for the journey. ...

— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee

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