GORGE
\ɡˈɔːd͡ʒ], \ɡˈɔːdʒ], \ɡ_ˈɔː_dʒ]\
Definitions of GORGE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A narrow passage or entrance
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A defile between mountains.
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That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
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A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
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A concave molding; a cavetto.
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The groove of a pulley.
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To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
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To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
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To eat greedily and to satiety.
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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.
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The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; - usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
By Oddity Software
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A narrow passage or entrance
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A defile between mountains.
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That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
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A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
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A concave molding; a cavetto.
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The groove of a pulley.
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To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
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To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
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To eat greedily and to satiety.
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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.
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The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; - usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
By Noah Webster.
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The throat; gullet; that which is swallowed; a filling or choking of a channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river; a narrow passage between mountains or hills.
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To swallow greedily or in large mouthfuls; satiate.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A ravine.
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The throat: a narrow pass among hills: (fort.) the entrance to an outwork.
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To swallow greedily: to glut.
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To feed.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Robley Dunglison
