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Webster 1913 Edition


Gorge

Gorge

,
Noun.
[F.
gorge
, LL.
gorgia
, throat, narrow pass, and
gorga
abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L.
gurgea
whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr.
gargara
whirlpool,
gṛ
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.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gorged
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gorging
.]
[F.
gorger
. See
Gorge
,
Noun.
]
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.

Gorge

,
Verb.
I.
To eat greedily and to satiety.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gorge

GORGE

,
Noun.
gorj. [L. gurges.]
1.
The throat; the gullet; the canal of the neck by which food passes to the stomach.
2.
In architecture, the narrowest part of the Tuscan and Doric capitals, between the astragal, above the shaft of the column, and the annulets.
3.
In fortification, the entrance of the platform of any work.
4.
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

GORGE

,
Verb.
T.
gorj. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. Hence,
1.
To glut; to fill the throat or stomach; to satiate.
The giant, gorged with flesh---

GORGE

,
Verb.
I.
To feed.