Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
- noun A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.
- noun The throat; the gullet.
- noun The crop of a hawk.
- noun An instance of gluttonous eating.
- noun The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.
- noun A mass obstructing a narrow passage.
- noun The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.
- intransitive verb To stuff with food; glut.
- intransitive verb To devour greedily.
- intransitive verb To eat gluttonously.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The throat; the gullet.
- noun Hence —2. That which is swallowed or is provided for swallowing; the material of a meal.
- noun The act of gorging; inordinate eating; a heavy meal: as, to indulge in a gorge after long abstinence.
- noun A jam; a mass which chokes up a passage: as, a gorge of logs in a river; an ice-gorge.
- noun A feeling of disgust, indignation, resentment, or the like: from the sympathetic influence of such emotions, when extreme in degree, upon the muscles of the throat.
- noun In architecture: The narrow part of the Tuscan and Roman Doric capitals, between the astragal above the shaft of the column and the echinus; the necking or hypophyge. It is found also in some provincial Greek Doric, as at Pæstum. See cut under
column . - noun A cavetto or hollow molding.
- noun A narrow passage between steep rocky walls; a ravine or defile with precipitous sides.
- noun The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort. See cut under
bastion . - noun In masonry, a little channel or up-cut on the lower side of the coping, to keep the drip from reaching the wall; a throat.
- noun The groove in the circumference of a pulley.
- noun A pitcher of earthenware or stoneware. Also
george . - noun Synonyms Ravine, Defile. See
valley . - To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness or by gulps.
- Hence—2. To glut; fill the throat or stomach of; satiate.
- To feed greedily; stuff one's self.
- noun In angling, a bait intended to be swallowed by the fish to effect its capture: usually a minnow in which a double-barbed leaded fish-hook is embedded.
- noun A fish-hook consisting of a straight or crescent-shaped piece of stone or bone sharpened at the ends and grooved or perforated in the center: used by primitive tribes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- transitive verb To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
- intransitive verb To eat greedily and to satiety.
- noun The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- noun A narrow passage or entrance.
- noun A defile between mountains.
- noun The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with
rear . SeeIllust. ofBastion . - noun That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- noun A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
- noun (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
- noun (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
- noun (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.
- noun (Gearing) the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.
- noun (Math.) a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis.
- noun trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.
- noun two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective UK, slang
Gorgeous . - noun A
deep narrow passage withsteep rocky sides; aravine . - noun The
throat orgullet . - verb reflexive To
eat greedily and in large quantities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Gouging it's way ever downward into the gorge is a river.
Archive 2004-08-01 Ed 2004
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Gouging it's way ever downward into the gorge is a river.
All we need is Blog? Ed 2004
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Telling that to people in the gorge is like telling Saudia Arabia to conserve gasoline.
Getting to third base with our pristine Columbia Gorge (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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The mountain gorge which was its source rang to the rising tide of it until it brimmed over and flooded earth and sky and air.
THE RED ONE 2010
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Sounds about right, both of them talk libertarian but gorge from the federal trough. blog comments powered by Disqus publicola nerds
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Lake Linderman was no more than a narrow mountain gorge filled with water.
THE MEAT 2010
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The gorge is a very steep sided ravine roughly 30 miles long and 295 ft. deep which forms part of the Great Rift Valley.
Archive 2008-07-01 jen 2008
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The gorge is a very steep sided ravine roughly 30 miles long and 295 ft. deep which forms part of the Great Rift Valley.
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Even Las Vegas has cloudy days, and even the Columbia gorge is calm once in a while!
Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007
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Anthropological studies and old copies of scurrilous newspapers suggest that the will to gorge is universal.
kjola commented on the word gorge
also: short for gorgeous
September 16, 2009