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gorge

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Noun

  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. The throat of a flower.
  4. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
  5. A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
  6. A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
  10. The groove of a pulley.
  11. A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
  12. An act of gorging.

Verb

  1. To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
  2. To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  3. To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
  4. To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

Adjective

  1. Gorgeous.

Proper noun

  1. A male given name.

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