Gorge — Defs

01 n. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

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
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.
A concave molding; a cavetto.(Arch.)
6.
The groove of a pulley.(Naut.)
7.
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.(Angling)

Phrases & compounds

Gorge circle — the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.

Circle of the gorge — 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.

02 v. t. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

imp. & p. p. Gorged; p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging

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.

03 v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety.