Definition of gorge

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Gorge (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river..

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Gorged :: Gorged (a.) Glutted; fed to the full.
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..
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..
Demigorge :: Demigorge (n.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion..
Guttle :: Guttle (n.) To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
Overgorge :: Overgorge (v. t.) To gorge to excess.
Ca–on :: Ca–on (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses..
Engorged :: Engorged (imp. & p. p.) of Engorg.
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor..
Disgorgement :: Disgorgement (n.) The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged.
Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts..
Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade..
Glut :: Glut (v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge..
Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..
Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A defile between mountains.
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century..
Gorge :: Gorge (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.
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