Gorge

Definition of Gorge

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

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.

6.

(Naut.) The groove of a pulley.

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.

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.

v. t.

1.

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

[imp. & p. p. Gorged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging .]

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.

v. i.

1.

To eat greedily and to satiety.

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