Definition of gorge

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

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Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
Disgorged :: Disgorged (imp. & p. p.) of Disgorg.
Ca–on :: Ca–on (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses..
Engorge :: Engorge (v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.
Guttle :: Guttle (n.) To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Fleche :: Fleche (n.) A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge..
Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
Gorged :: Gorged (a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
Blown :: Blown (p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas..
Ingorge :: Ingorge (v. t. & i.) See Engorge.
Gorged :: Gorged (a.) Glutted; fed to the full.
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river..
Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column..
Gleam :: Gleam (v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk..
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal..
Shrill-gorged :: Shrill-gorged (a.) Having a throat which produces a shrill note.
Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..
Couloir :: Couloir (n.) A deep gorge; a gully.
Neckplate :: Neckplate (n.) See Gorget, 1 and 2..
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