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