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Webster's English Dictionary

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 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 ()

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. ()

7. (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. ()

Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. -- 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. -- Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Knight. ()

v. t. [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.)

v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. (Milton.)