gorge

n. [ F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g&rsdot_; to devour. Cf. Gorget. ] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the way, most like a brutish beast,
e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. --
Circle of the gorge (Math.), 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. Knight. [ 1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl. ]