Definitions for "Gorge"
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.
The seam formed at the point where the lapel meets the collar of a jacket or coat.
On a coat, where the lapels start and the collar ends. A very low gorge is down the middle of the chest.
On a coat, the seam where the collar meets the lapel.
The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
t: a curved plate or plates of metal encircling and protecting the throat.
To eat greedily and to satiety.
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"
the rear face of an exterior defensive work.
entrance to a detached work, or simply the rear of the work, as in, a lunette is open "at the gorge." Leaving the rear of a work open allowed defenders in a secondary line to fire into it in case it were captured. A wooden stockade was sometimes built to close off the gorge.
in a bastion, the interval or space between the two curtain angles. In other works that were open at the rear, it denoted the opening.
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
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.
To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
A concave molding; a cavetto.
The groove of a pulley.
a hollow moulding.