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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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