Word Direct Answers

What does "gorge" mean?

Gorge: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
  3. 4.(Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.
  4. 5.(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.
  5. 6.To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson.
  6. 7.To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. The giant gorged with flesh. Addison. Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden.
  7. 8.To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.

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