gorges

/G AO1 R JH AH0 Z/
noun
  1. 1

    (botany) The throat of a flower.

  2. 2

    Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

  3. 3

    (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.

  4. 4

    (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

  5. 5

    (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.

  6. 6

    (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

  7. 7

    (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

  8. 8

    (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

  9. 9

    (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.

  10. 10

    An act of gorging.

  11. 11

    (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

  12. 12

    (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

  13. 13

    A male given name.

verb
  1. 1

    (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]

  2. 2

    (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

  3. 3

    (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

  4. 4

    (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

adjective
  1. 1

    (slang) Gorgeous.