GORGE
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Gorge (?), n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g&rsdot_; to devour. Cf. Gorget.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
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Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
Spenser.
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Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.
Shak.
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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.
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3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
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And all the way, most like a brutish beast,
e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
Spenser.
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4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
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5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.
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6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
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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.
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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. 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.
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The fish has gorged the hook.
Johnson.
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2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
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The giant gorged with flesh.
Addison.
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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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