Gorge /(?)/

Gorge

n.
  1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
    Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
    Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.
  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.
  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.

Gorge

v. t.

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.
  2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
    The giant gorged with flesh.
    Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.

Gorge

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