noun. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

noun. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.

noun. The throat; the gullet.

noun. The crop of a hawk.

noun. An instance of gluttonous eating.

noun. The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.

noun. A mass obstructing a narrow passage.

noun. The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.

intransitive verb. To stuff with food; glut.

intransitive verb. To devour greedily.

intransitive verb. To eat gluttonously.

noun. In angling, a bait intended to be swallowed by the fish to effect its capture: usually a minnow in which a double-barbed leaded fish-hook is embedded.

noun. A fish-hook consisting of a straight or crescent-shaped piece of stone or bone sharpened at the ends and grooved or perforated in the center: used by primitive tribes.

noun. The throat; the gullet.

noun. Hence —2. That which is swallowed or is provided for swallowing; the material of a meal.

noun. The act of gorging; inordinate eating; a heavy meal: as, to indulge in a gorge after long abstinence.

noun. A jam; a mass which chokes up a passage: as, a gorge of logs in a river; an ice-gorge.

noun. A feeling of disgust, indignation, resentment, or the like: from the sympathetic influence of such emotions, when extreme in degree, upon the muscles of the throat.

noun. In architecture: The narrow part of the Tuscan and Roman Doric capitals, between the astragal above the shaft of the column and the echinus; the necking or hypophyge. It is found also in some provincial Greek Doric, as at Pæstum. See cut under column.

noun. A cavetto or hollow molding.

noun. A narrow passage between steep rocky walls; a ravine or defile with precipitous sides.

noun. The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort. See cut under bastion.

noun. In masonry, a little channel or up-cut on the lower side of the coping, to keep the drip from reaching the wall; a throat.

noun. The groove in the circumference of a pulley.

noun. A pitcher of earthenware or stoneware. Also george.

noun. Synonyms Ravine, Defile. See valley.

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness or by gulps.

Hence—2. To glut; fill the throat or stomach of; satiate.

To feed greedily; stuff one's self.

intransitive verb. To eat greedily and to satiety.

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

transitive verb. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

noun. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

noun. A narrow passage or entrance.

noun. A defile between mountains.

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

noun. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

noun. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.

noun. A concave molding; a cavetto.

noun. The groove of a pulley.

noun. 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.

noun. the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.

noun. a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis.

noun. trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.

noun. two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead.

noun. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

noun. The throat or gullet.

verb. To eat greedily and in large quantities.

adjective. Gorgeous.

verb. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

"Gouging it's way ever downward into the gorge is a river."

circle of the gorge  to bear full gorge  to have the gorge rise  to heave the gorge  

disgorge  engorge  

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George  Norge  disgorge  forge  

bluff  cavern  chasm  cleave  crater  

abysm  abyss  allay  arroyo  bar  

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gorged  gorges  gorgess  gorging