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Definitions for: Gorge
[n] the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
[n] a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
[n] a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
[v] overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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.
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.
Gorge, v. i.
To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.
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.
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.
Synonyms: binge, defile, englut, engorge, esophagus, glut, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, gullet, ingurgitate, oesophagus, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff
Antonyms: munch, nibble
See Also: alimentary canal, alimentary tract, cardiac sphincter, cram, digestive tract, digestive tube, eat, epicardia, fill, fill up, flume, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract, Grand Canyon, gulch, jam, mountain pass, muscle system, muscular structure, musculature, notch, Olduvai Gorge, pass, passage, passageway, ravine
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