·noun The groove of a pulley.
II. Gorge ·noun A defile between mountains.
III. Gorge ·noun A concave molding; a cavetto.
IV. Gorge ·noun A narrow passage or entrance.
V. Gorge ·vi To eat greedily and to satiety.
VI. Gorge ·noun The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
VII. Gorge ·noun That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
VIII. Gorge ·noun To
Glut; to fill up to the throat; to
Satiate.
IX. Gorge ·noun A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
X. Gorge ·noun To
Swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
XI. Gorge ·noun The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort;
- usually synonymous with rear. ·see ·Illust. of Bastion.
XII. Gorge ·add. ·noun 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.