[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

            wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

            now, how abhorred . . . my gorge rises at it.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

   3. that which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or
      other fowl.
      1913 webster

            and all the way, most like a brutish beast,
            e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   4. a filling or choking of a passage or channel by an
      obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
      1913 webster

   5. arch. a concave molding; a cavetto. --gwilt.
      1913 webster

   6. naut. the groove of a pulley.
      1913 webster

   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.
see also:
gorget bastion gorge circle circle of the gorge gorge fishing gorge hook 

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