GORGED

Etymology

Adjective

gorged (not comparable)

With a stomach stuffed full of food.

(heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.

Having a gorge or throat.

Verb

gorged

simple past tense and past participle of gorge

Anagrams

• Dogger, dogger, rogged

Source: Wiktionary


Gorged, a.

1. Having a gorge or throat.

2. (Her.)

Definition: Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.

3. Glutted; fed to the full.

GORGE

Gorge, n. Etym: [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, gr 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,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.)

Definition: A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.

6. (Naut.)

Definition: 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.] Etym: [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.

Definition: To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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