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Origin and Meaning of Gorge
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English
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Hebrew
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American
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Spanish
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Gorge
Senses
- 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.]
- A narrow passage or entrance
- A defile between mountains.
- The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- A defile between mountains.
- 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.]
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- [Arch] A concave molding; a cavetto.
- [Naut] The groove of a pulley.
- [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.
Etymology: F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, gṛ to devour. Cf. Gorget
verb Gorge
Senses
- To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities."The fish has gorged the hook." [Johnson.]
- To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate."The giant gorged with flesh." [Addison.]" Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite." [Dryden.]
Etymology: F. gorger. See Gorge (n.)
verb Gorge
To eat greedily and to satiety.
Other Dictionary Sources
- The passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- A narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
- A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Wiktionary
From Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga, likely connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”)
- A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
- The throat or gullet.
- That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
- an ice in a river
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- (nautical) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook, consisting of an object easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- (heraldry) A whirlpool.
Shortened from gorgeous.
gorge was also found in the following language(s): French, Italian, Middle French, Norman, and Old French