From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gorge \Gorge\, verb (used without an object) To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gorge \Gorge\, noun [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.
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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. [1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gorge \Gorge\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gorged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gorging}.] [F. gorger. See {Gorge}, noun]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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}, {oesophagus}, {gullet}]
verb
1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream" [syn: {ingurgitate}, {overindulge}, {glut}, {englut}, {stuff}, {engorge}, {overgorge}, {overeat}, {gormandize}, {gormandise}, {gourmandize}, {binge}, {pig out}, {satiate}, {scarf out}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
171 Moby Thesaurus words for "gorge": abysm, abyss, allay, arroyo, bar, barrier, batten, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bolt, bolt down, bottleneck, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, cecum, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, choke, choking, choking off, cleft, cleuch, clog, clough, clove, cloy, col, congest, congestion, constipation, costiveness, coulee, couloir, crack, cram, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crowd, cul-de-sac, cut, cwm, dead end, defile, dell, devour, dike, ditch, donga, draw, drench, embolism, embolus, engorge, esophagus, excavation, fauces, fault, fill, fill up, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goozle, gormandize, groove, gulch, gulf, gullet, gully, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hals, hole, impasse, impediment, incision, infarct, infarction, jade, jam, jam-pack, joint, kloof, leak, live to eat, moat, notch, nullah, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, opening, overburden, overcharge, overdose, overeat, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, overindulge, overlade, overload, oversaturate, overstuff, overweight, pack, pall, pass, passage, pharynx, raven, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, scissure, sealing off, seam, slake, slit, slot, soak, split, stall, stodge, stop, stoppage, strangulation, stuff, supercharge, supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit, swallow, throat, trench, valley, void, vomit, wadi, weasand, wizen, wolf, wolf down
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