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▸ noun: (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
▸ noun: Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
▸ noun: (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
▸ noun: (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
▸ noun: (architecture, military, fortification) 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.
▸ noun: (fishing) 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.
▸ noun: (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
▸ noun: (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
▸ noun: (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
▸ verb: (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
▸ verb: (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
▸ verb: (transitive) 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.
▸ noun: An act of gorging.
▸ adjective: (slang) Gorgeous.
▸ noun: A male given name.
Similar:
ingurgitate,
pig out,
englut,
gullet,
engorge,
gormandise,
gourmandize,
gormandize,
stuff,
overgorge,
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