gorge

Meaning

1. The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
2. The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
3. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
4. A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
5. A concave moulding; a cavetto.
6. The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
7. A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is 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.
8. A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
9. The groove of a pulley.

ravine

scarf out

gorge oneself

water gap

narrowing between two heights

deep valley

fress

kuru

mountain stream

stuff oneself

lump of ice

eat too much

drip mold

narrow defile

cavetto moulding

mountain gorge

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɔːdʒ/

From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”). Doublet of gour.