\Gorge\, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass,
and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool,
gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf.
{Gorget}.]
1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to
   the stomach.
         Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
                                               --Spenser.
         Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.
                                               --Shak.
2. A narrow passage or entrance; as:
   (a) A defile between mountains.
   (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a
       fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of
       {Bastion}.
3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or
   other fowl.
         And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed
         up his gorge, that all did him detest. --Spenser.
4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an
   obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt.
6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
{Gorge circle} (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross
   section of a hyperboloid of revolution.
{Gorge hook}, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead.
   --Knight.

\Gorge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gorged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gorging}.] [F. gorger. See {Gorge}, n.]
1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in
   large mouthfuls or quantities.
         The fish has gorged the hook.         --Johnson.
2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
         The giant gorged with flesh.          --Addison.
         Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
                                               --Dryden.

\Gorge\, v. i.
To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.

\Gorge\, n. (Angling)
A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of
an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or
loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and
attached in the middle to a line.
{Circle of the gorge} (Math.), a minimum circle on a surface
   of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the
   axis.
{Gorge fishing}, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook
   which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.