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| English Dictionary: gorge |
by the
DICT Development Group |
| 5 results for gorge |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- gorge
- n
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
Synonym(s): defile, gorge
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
Synonym(s): esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet
- v
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She
stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
Synonym(s): gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Gorge \Gorge\, n. (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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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[f0] 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.
{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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Gorge \Gorge\, v. i.
To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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.
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