| Gorge (gorge) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Gorge |
| [F. gorge, LL.
gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss,
whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf.
Skr. gargara whirlpool, gr. to devour. Cf.
Gorget.] |
The throat; the gullet; the
canal by which food passes to the stomach.
A narrow passage or entrance
That which is gorged or swallowed,
especially by a hawk or other fowl.
A filling or choking of a passage or
channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a
river.
A concave molding; a
cavetto.
The groove of a
pulley.
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To swallow] especially,
to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or
quantities.
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to
satiate.
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To eat greedily and
to satiety.
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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.
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