Thesaurus: gorge

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1. n. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
2. n. A narrow passage or entrance
3. n. A defile between mountains.
4. n. The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
5. n. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
6. n. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
7. n. A concave molding; a cavetto.
8. n. The groove of a pulley.
9. n. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
10. n. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
11. v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety.
12. n. a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)