GORGE


Meaning of GORGE in English

noun the groove of a pulley.

2. gorge ·noun a defile between mountains.

3. gorge ·noun a concave molding; a cavetto.

4. gorge ·noun a narrow passage or entrance.

5. gorge ·vi to eat greedily and to satiety.

6. gorge ·noun the throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

7. gorge ·noun that which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

8. gorge ·noun to glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

9. gorge ·noun a filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

10. gorge ·noun to swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

11. gorge ·noun the entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort;

— usually synonymous with rear. ·see ·illust. of bastion.

12. gorge ·add. ·noun 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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