Gorge \Gorge\, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.
Gorge \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[.r] 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.
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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. [1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Gorge \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.
Although Fedeccredito wasn't able to bridge a gorge in Maquiliquat, it had no trouble building a retainer wall with government materials and labor to protect a Fedeccredito supervisor's house in Chalatenango City against mud slides.
It hugs the Indus gorge all the way, carved or blasted out of the rock walls that tower above it, with the river silently sweeping or raging and roaring hundreds of metres below.
Some soldiers said they felt the gorge just north of Kabul and approaches to the Salang tunnel, 70 miles north of the city, would be the most dangerous part of their journey.
The death toll from Saturday's accident had been put at 35, but State Transport Minister Sat Mahajan said 20 additional bodies were recovered from the gorge at Ghanog Nallah, UNI said.
In Jordan, the narrow gorge leading into the ancient city of Petra, the country's main tourist attraction, had to be closed. Officials feared that melting snow would turn it into a raging flood course.
In the Champion group, for example, some participants balked at quitting cigarettes, complained about the alcohol ban and vowed to gorge themselves on steak and liquor when it was over.
On Thanksgiving Day, the body of June Stotts, also 29, was discovered in Rochester's Genesee River gorge.
If anything passes in front of their eyes that looks remotely edible, then it gets eaten.' Day three found us clambering up a steep gorge alongside a clear running river.
The next morning we drove along the Valley of a Thousand Kasbahs to Erfoud via Tineghir and the Todra gorge.
Hundreds of Jews gathered for a memorial service Thursday on the steep cliff where the bus plunged 200 feet into a gorge.
Its meadows sweep down to a shallow river in a gorge.
The south end of the gorge is in Arizona, a few miles from the Nevada border.
"The water pretty well has receded down," Mattson said. "It's headed down the gorge and into the Arizona end of it.