資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gorge \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.