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gorge       (gôrj)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification. The throat; the gullet: The gory sight made my gorge rise. The crop of a hawk. An instance of gluttonous eating. The contents of the stomach; something swallowed. A mass obstructing a narrow passage: a shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge. The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined. v.   gorged, gorg·ing, gorg·es v.   tr. To stuff with food; glut: gorged themselves with candy. To devour greedily. v.   intr. To eat gluttonously. [Middle English, throat, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga, perhaps from Latin gurges, whirlpool, abyss.] gorg'er n.

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gorge  (n.)

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gorge
noun
1.	a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
2.	a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) [syn: defile]
3.	the passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus]
verb
1.	overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

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gorge       (gôrj)  Pronunciation Key  A deep, narrow valley with steep rocky sides, often with a stream flowing through it. Gorges are smaller and narrower than canyons and are often a part of a canyon.

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Grand Gorge, NY Zip code(s): 12434

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Gorge

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.

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Gorge

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.

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Gorge

Gorge\, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.

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Gorge

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.