Gorge (?), n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, gr. to devour. Cf. Gorget.]
1.
The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
Spenser.
Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.
Shak.
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. 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.
Spenser.
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. Gwilt.
6. (Naut.)
The groove of a pulley.
Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. --
Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Knight.
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Gorge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gorged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging (?).] [F. gorger. See Gorge, n.]
1.
To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
The fish has gorged the hook.
Johnson.
2.
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
The giant gorged with flesh.
Addison.
Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
Dryden.
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Gorge, v. i.
To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.
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Gorge, n. (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.
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.
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