| gorge |
noun |
The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach., A narrow passage or entrance, A defile between mountains., The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; — usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion., 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., To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities., To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate., To eat greedily and to satiety. |