gorge

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  A bridge spans a steep-sided gorge
• WordNet 3.6
  • v gorge overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself "She stuffed herself at the dinner","The kids binged on ice cream"
  • n gorge the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
  • n gorge a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
  • n gorge a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
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• Interesting fact: A leech can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight
• • Gorge (Arch) A concave molding; a cavetto.
  • Gorge A defile between mountains.
  • Gorge A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
  • Gorge A narrow passage or entrance
  • Gorge (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 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."
  • Gorge The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • Gorge (Naut) The groove of a pulley.
  • Gorge 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."
  • v. i Gorge To eat greedily and to satiety.
  • Gorge To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. "The giant gorged with flesh.""Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite."
  • Gorge To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. "The fish has gorged the hook."
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• • n gorge The throat; the gullet.
  • n gorge Hence —2. That which is swallowed or is provided for swallowing; the material of a meal.
  • n gorge The act of gorging; inordinate eating; a heavy meal: as, to indulge in a gorge after long abstinence.
  • n gorge A jam; a mass which chokes up a passage: as, a gorge of logs in a river; an ice-gorge.
  • n gorge A feeling of disgust, indignation, resentment, or the like: from the sympathetic influence of such emotions, when extreme in degree, upon the muscles of the throat.
  • n gorge In architecture: The narrow part of the Tuscan and Roman Doric capitals, between the astragal above the shaft of the column and the echinus; the necking or hypophyge. It is found also in some provincial Greek Doric, as at Pæstum. See cut under column.
  • n gorge A cavetto or hollow molding.
  • n gorge A narrow passage between steep rocky walls; a ravine or defile with precipitous sides.
  • n gorge The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort. See cut under bastion.
  • n gorge In masonry, a little channel or up-cut on the lower side of the coping, to keep the drip from reaching the wall; a throat.
  • n gorge The groove in the circumference of a pulley.
  • n gorge A pitcher of earthenware or stoneware. Also george.
  • n gorge Synonyms Ravine, Defile. See valley.
  • gorge To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness or by gulps.
  • gorge Hence—2. To glut; fill the throat or stomach of; satiate.
  • gorge To feed greedily; stuff one's self.
  • n gorge In angling, a bait intended to be swallowed by the fish to effect its capture: usually a minnow in which a double-barbed leaded fish-hook is embedded.
  • n gorge A fish-hook consisting of a straight or crescent-shaped piece of stone or bone sharpened at the ends and grooved or perforated in the center: used by primitive tribes.
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• • n Gorge gorj the throat: a narrow pass among hills:
  • v.t Gorge to swallow greedily: to glut
  • v.i Gorge to feed
  • n Gorge gorj (fort.) the entrance to an outwork
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