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gorges, plural;
  1. Eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food
    • - the river comes alive during March when fish gorge on caddisworms
    • - we used to go to all the little restaurants there and gorge ourselves
Noun
  1. A narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it

  2. The throat

  3. The contents of the stomach

  4. The neck of a bastion or other outwork; the rear entrance to a fortification

  5. A mass of ice obstructing a narrow passage, esp. a river

  1. a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
  2. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
  3. defile: a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
  4. esophagus: the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
  5. A canyon (occasionally spelled cañon) or gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Most canyons were formed by a process of long-time erosion from a plateau level. ...
  6. A ditch in military engineering is an obstacle, designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is intended to provide cover to the defenders. ...
  7. In Greek mythology, Gorge is a daughter of Oeneus and Althaea, and wife of Andraemon. Artemis changed her sisters into birds because of their constant mourning over the death of their brother Meleager, but spared Gorge and her sister Deianeira. ...
  8. The Gorge is a collection of the songs played during Dave Matthews Band's three-night concert in 2002 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. ...
  9. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine; The throat or gullet; To eat greedily and in large quantities; Gorgeous
  10. (gorged) With a stomach stuffed full of food; With the neck collared or encircled by an object
  11. (Gorged) Used of an animal wearing a collar, which may be a plain collar or also a wreath or a crown. The unicorn of Scotland is gorged with a crown.
  12. (GORGED) The heraldic term used when a beast or bird (and occasionally another charge) is shown with its collar in a different tincture - this may be either plain or decorated and is sometimes in the form of a coronet – collared or accolé (see also ‘appendix V’, ‘armed 2)’, ‘attired’, ‘beaked’, ...
  13. deep, narrow, steep (often vertical) -sided valley which usually has a river occupying its entire floor.
  14. a small tool, often of bone, pointed at either end and equipped with a hole near its centre for attachment to a line. It is baited and imbeds itself crosswise in the throat of fish or small game when the line is pulled.
  15. (also "gorge-hook"): a bone bipoint used to catch fish or waterfowl. After being swallowed, the hook will toggle in the stomach of the prey and cannot be drawn out.
  16. in a bastion, the interval or space between the two curtain angles.  In other works that were open at the rear, it denoted the opening.
  17. A narrow, very deep canyon with preciptous rocky sides usually carved by a river.
  18. A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon. Gorges may or may not have a river at their bottom.
  19. A narrow, deep valley with nearly vertical rocky walls. (SS)
  20. 1669. The neck of a bastion or other outwork; the entrance from the rear to the platform or body of a work.
  21. a steep-sided, narrow rocky valley marking the retreat of a waterfall.
  22. a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, esp. one through which a stream runs.
  23. entrance to a detached work, or simply the rear of the work, as in, a lunette is open "at the gorge." Leaving the rear of a work open allowed defenders in a secondary line to fire into it in case it were captured. A wooden stockade was sometimes built to close off the gorge.
  24. A steep sided valley that has almost vertical sides which cuts into the landscape like a narrow channel.
  25. The seam on a coat where collar meets lapel.