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.
A narrow passage or entrance; as:
A defile between mountains.
The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast,gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.
A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.
The groove of a pulley. Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. -- Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Knight.
To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson.
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. The giant gorged with flesh. Addison. Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden.
To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.
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