Definitions for the word "Gorge" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A narrow passage or entrance
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A defile between mountains.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A concave molding; a cavetto.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The groove of a pulley.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To eat greedily and to satiety.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 narrow opening between hills. 2 act of gorging. 3 contents of the stomach. v. (-ging) 1 feed greedily. 2 a (often refl.) Satiate. B devour greedily. one''s gorge rises at one is sickened by. [french, = throat]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. slang
to eat in a ravenous manner. “Rotten GORGERS” are those hungry
lads who hang about Covent Garden Market, and devour the discarded
fruit.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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