Gorge | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Gôrge, n.

noun

n. [Fr. gorge, Pr. gorga, gorja, It. gorga, gorgia, gullet, throat, Sp. gorja, throat, gorga, whirlpool, It. gorgo, Pr. gorge, Fr. gort, gord, gour, whirlpool; Lat. gurges, whirlpool, gulf, abyss.]

Sense 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 in my imagination! my gorge rises at it. Shak.

Sense 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.]

Sense 3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

And all the way, like a most brutish beast, He spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.

Sense 4. (Arch.) A concave molding; cavetto. Gwilt.

Gōrge, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. GORGED; p. pr. & vb. n. GORGING.] [Fr. gorger. See supra.]

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. “The fish has gorged the hook.” Johnson.
To glut; to fill the throat or stomach of; to satiate. “The giant gorged with flesh.” Addison.

“Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.” Dryden.

Gōrge, v. i.

verbintransitive

To feed greedily. Milton.