Gorge

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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:

3. A defile between mountains.

4. The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

5. 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.

6. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

7. A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.

8. 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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.