Gorge

·noun The groove of a pulley.

II. Gorge ·noun A defile between mountains.

III. Gorge ·noun A concave molding; a cavetto.

IV. Gorge ·noun A narrow passage or entrance.

V. Gorge ·vi To eat greedily and to satiety.

VI. Gorge ·noun The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

VII. Gorge ·noun That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

VIII. Gorge ·noun To Glut; to fill up to the throat; to Satiate.

IX. Gorge ·noun A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

X. Gorge ·noun To Swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

XI. Gorge ·noun The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort;

— usually synonymous with rear. ·see ·Illust. of Bastion.

XII. Gorge ·add. ·noun 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.