gorgen.1
/ɡɔːdʒ/, U.S. /ɡɔrdʒ/ I. In physical senses.figurative.1790–1 W. Blake Divine Image in Songs of Experience in Compl. Poetry & Prose (1982) 32 The Human Face [is] a Furnace seal'd, The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 1358 And the gorge of the gulfs of the battle is wide for the spoil of the world.† 4. A meal for a hawk. (to give) gorge upon gorge: a second meal before another is digested; also transferred. Obsolete.
1. figurative.1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Aiijv We shewe by demonstrative reasons that it goeth to the very gorge of the Church.† b. The dewlap of a bull.Apparently an isolated use.
a. The external throat; the front of the neck; said both of human beings and of animals. Obsolete exc. archaic.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [noun] > front of neck
throatOE
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a1400–50 Alexander 4985 All gilden was hire gorg with golden fethirs.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3761 He gyrdes hym in at þe gorge with his gryme launce.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. viii. 81 The breste and the gorge of hym [the phenix] shyneth.
a1529 J. Skelton Ware the Hauke (1843) 87 With that he gaue her a bounce Full vpon the gorge.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. H7v He..stept vnto the rebell, and taking him by the gorge, proud varlet quoth he [etc.].
1819 J. Keats King Stephen i. iii Do not tempt me to throttle you on the gorge.
1866 C. Merivale in Contemp. Rev. II. 270 The form divine, the graceful gorge, fair breast, and dazzling eyes.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > parts of
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a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 220 [There was] a goodly fare white bull..his crop or gorg hanging down to his knees before him.
2. The internal throat. Now only rhetorical.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun]
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c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. xi. 53 God is muche in þe gorge of þeose grete Maystres.
a1400–50 Alexander 3627 And full of glorand gledis þaim to þe gorge fillis.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxxii. 489 He caste fyre and smoke oute of his gorge lyke a forneyse.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiv. sig. I6v Songs; which the watrie instruments did make their [birds'] gorge deliuer.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 339 The vpper part or top of the Wezand, is called the Gorge, or the gullet.
1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick 41 Forth his smoaking gorge came sulphur smoke.
1821 Ld. Byron Irish Avatar xx Till the gluttonous despot be stuff'd to the gorge!
1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 137 The golden gorge of dragons spouted forth A flood of fountain-foam.
3. figurative.1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 29 in Jewell House Doe wee thinke that Nature is bounde to cast vp the treasures of her full gorge amongest vs?1622 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VI. O.T. xvi. 79 So vast are the gorges of some consciences, that they can swallow the greatest crimes.1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxiv. 256 The first are in destruction's gorge.
a. Falconry. The crop of a hawk. to bear full gorge: to be full fed. Hence, in opprobrious rhetorical use, the ‘maw’, devouring capacity, of a monster, or a person, etc. spoken of as gluttonous, bloodthirsty, or rapacious. Obsolete exc. archaic.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] > rapacity > rapacious person
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > parts of > digestive organs of
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c1450 Bk. Hawkyng in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 304 The flesch that is in his gorge woll be oversoden if it be ther any while long holdyng.
1486 Bk. St. Albans C viij She goorgith when she fillith hir goorge with meete.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij Theyr gredy gorgys ar rapt with the smell.
1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xlvii. sig. F4 No Lure will cause her stoope, she beares full gorge.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 51 With ramd cramd garbadge, theire gorges draftye be gulled.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. v. sig. K2v Here lies a dish to feast thy fathers gorge.
1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶ Gorge, is that part of the Hawke which first receiueth the meat, and is called the Craw or crop in other fowles.
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. iv. xxvii. 23 Nothing could glut the gorges of those bloody Priests.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 63 This mighty sailewing'd monster that menaces to swallow up the Land, unlesse her bottomlesse gorge may be satisfi'd with the blood of the Kings daughter the Church.
1852 C. Kingsley Andromeda 64 A prey for the gorge of the monster.
b. The phrase a full gorge properly belongs to sense 3 (cf. on a full stomach at stomach n. 1c), but the ambiguity of the adjective led to its being interpreted according to sense 4 (Cf. gorge n.3)
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1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 64 The counsailor heareth causes with lesse pain beyng emptie, then he shal be able after a full gorge.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cciii. 171 If..they be not sicke vpon a full gorge, yet they are drousie and heauie.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 54 What though? because the Vulturs had then but small pickings; shall we therefore go and fling them a full gorge?
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xv. 126 Falconers,..when they have fed their Hawks, will not suffer them to fly on a full Gorge.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Capon Give the Capon a full Gorge thereof three times a Day.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > food for hawks
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c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) ii. xxvii. i jb They..Forsoke Mars..And to Bachus their hedes gan enclyne Gorge vpon gorge, tyll it drough to nyght.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 199 Beware that you gyue hir not gorge vpon gorge.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 291 The diseases in Hawkes heads do most commonly breede of giuing them too great gorges.
1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xv. 107 I haue already forewarned you, to be circumspect in her diet, that it may be of light and coole meat, and small gorges thereof.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 166 In the first place, never give them [Hawks] a great Gorge, especially of gross meats.
5. figurative.1642 D. Rogers Naaman 37 Sundry who..haue sent for the minister..and there vomitted up all their gorge, accused and condemned themselves.
a. What has been swallowed, the contents of the stomach; in phrases (primarily of Falconry) †to cast (up), heave, spue up, vomit one's gorge. Also to cast the gorge at: to reject (food) with loathing.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > vomit
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to cast the crawa1529
to cast (up), heave, spue up, vomit one's gorgea1529
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to cast out1561
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to jerk, shoot, whip the cat1609
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to flay the fox1653
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to shoot the cat1785
to throw up1793
throw1804
cascade1805
reject1822
yark1867
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to toss (also shoot, blow, etc.) one's cookies1927
to lose a dinner (or a meal)1941
to spew one's ring1949
chunder1950
barf1960
upchuck1960
yuck1963
ralph1966
to go for the big spit1967
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > disgust or revulsion for food or drink > feel disgust or revulsion for food or drink [verb (transitive)] > reject food or drink through disgust
nauseate1640
to cast the gorge at1857
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii To styre vp your stomake you must you forge Call for a candell and cast vp your gorge.
a1555 J. Bradford Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) III. 1825/1 He will vomit his gorge, and cast flouds to ouerflow hym.
c1575 Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 20 Castinge the gorge, kepinge her meate longe aboue, or other surfit..be..veary daungerus.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D3 And all the way, most like a brutish beast, He spued vp his gorge, that all did him deteast.
1857 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1858) I. xvii. 57 Eat horse, or eat dog, or put something into your mouths you have always been taught to cast the gorge at.
b. Frequently used figuratively in the above phrases to express extreme disgust or (in later use) violent resentment; now commonly one's gorge rises (at or †against). to rouse (stir) the gorge: to make furiously angry.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > expressing extreme disgust or violent resentment [phrase]
one's gorge rises (at or against)1532
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 702/1 [Preachers who] make a man ready to cast his gorge to heare them raue and rage like mad men.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 183 How abhorred in my imagination it is: my gorge rises at it. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 233 Her delicate tendernesse will finde it selfe abus'd, beginne to heaue the gorge, disrellish and abhorre the Moore. View more context for this quotation
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) III. xvi. 245 The very Gorge of my Soul rises against this Dæmon.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. vi. 219 So insolent..a request would have been enough to have roused the gorge of the tranquil Van Twiller himself.
1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators II. 274 He remembered now that his gorge had risen while he spoke.
1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible vi. 243 The very thought of whom naturally stirred all the gorge of this Pharisee of the Pharisees.
1877 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth (ed. 4) iv. 34 In uttering it he would be unable to repress the rising gorge of self-disgust.
II. In transferred (chiefly technical) uses.† 8. Farriery. (See quot. 1610) Obsolete. rare. (Cf. gorged adj.2 2.)† 13. Pottery. plural. (See quots.) [Possibly a distinct word: compare Brown George n.]
6. Fortification. The neck of a bastion or other outwork; the entrance from the rear to the platform or body of a work (cf. quot. 1834).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > bastion > parts of
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1669 London Gaz. No. 390/3 But yet the courage of his men prevailing, they won from the Turks the Gorge of that Bastion.
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 586 The greater the Flanks and the Gorge between them are, the better they are.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xix. 82 We have not a couple of field pieces to mount in the gorge of that new redoubt.
1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) IX. 12 The detachment which attacked the work by the gorge had the most serious difficulties to contend with.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 9 The open part of the redan, and of all other works, is called the gorge.
1876 in G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict.
7. A narrow opening between hills; a ravine with rocky walls, esp. one that gives passage to a stream.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine
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1769 T. Gray Jrnl. 4 Oct. in Corr. (1971) III. 1090 Looking full into the gorge of Borodale.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvi. 243 Through the gorge of this glen they found access to a black bog. View more context for this quotation
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine Introd. 39 A mass of high limestone cliffs, with two deep gorges.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 157 If the glacier enters a gorge, it becomes contracted.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > caused by tumours > tumour
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1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cx. 391 The gorge or gourded legges, is an ill sorrance, being a grieuous swelling in the neather part of the legges.
9. Architecture. (See quots.) [All in French use.]
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > parts at junction of shaft and capital
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > coping > groove under coping
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings
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bird's beak moulding1845
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bead-work1881
Venetian dentil1892
chevron-work-
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b.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Gorge of a Chimney, is the Part between the Chambranle, and the Crowning of the Mantle.c.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gorge,..a kind of Moulding, hollow on the inside, which is larger, but not so deep as the Scotia.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Gorge,..a sort of concave Moulding, wider, but not so deep as a Scotia.1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 585. d.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Gorge is sometimes also used for a Moulding that is concave in the upper Part, and convex at Bottom; more properly called Gula, and Cymatium.e.1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gorge, (Masonry) a small groove at the under side of a coping, to keep the drip from reaching the wall.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gorge, Gule, or Neck, (in Architect.) is the narrowest part of the Dorick and Tuscan Capitals, lying between the Astragal, above the Shaft of the Pillar, and the Annulets.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Gorge is also used for the Neck of a Column; more properly called Collarino, and Gorgerin.
1889 in Cent. Dict.
10. Mechanics. The groove of a pulley. [So French gorge.]
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > tackle > pulley > parts of
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1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 308 To prevent the ropes a and b from rubbing against each other, the upper fixed pulley may have a double gorge.
1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.
11. Angling.† a. A contrivance for disengaging a fishhook, when swallowed. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] > device for retracting hooks
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disgorger1867
gulleter1883
1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling i. xiv. 43 As the Pearch generally swallows the Bait..it will be necessary to carry an Instrument..which I call a Gorge.
b. A solid object, intended to be swallowed by the fish, to ensure its capture.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > other fishing devices
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1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 900/1 The fish swallowed it, and, the gorge coming crosswise with the gullet, the fish was captured.
1884 Athenæum 23 Feb. 254/3 Flints of various sizes..manufactured for use as fish-hooks, gorges, and sinkers.
12. U.S. A mass choking up a narrow passage; esp. in ice-gorge (see ice n. Compounds 8).
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1884 W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Mar. 514/2 An ice-gorge forming in the river..has smashed..whole fleets of them.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Apr. 7/2 The ice gorge near Montreal has been broken.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > other earthenwares
gorge1684
Berlin ware1829
boccaro1872
1684 J. Dwight Patent in L. Jewitt Ceramic Art Great Brit. (1878) I. 121 Severall new Manufactures of Earthenwares, called by the Names of White Gorges, Marbled Porcellane Vessells, Statues, and Figures, and Fine Stone Gorges and Vessells, never before made in England or elsewhere.
1813 T. Faulkner Hist. Acct. Fulham 27 In the year 1684 Mr. John Dwight..established..a manufactory of earthern wares known under the name of White Gorges.
1879 J. Timbs in Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 367/2 Specimens of..‘Fulham Ware’, consisting of white gorges or pitchers.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 11.)
gorge-bait n.
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1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 111 Gorge baits of all kinds..were invented by the father of cruelty.
gorge-fishing n.
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1898 Daily News 14 Dec. 6/4 The abolition of..live or dead gorge fishing.
gorge-hook n.
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1866 Athenæum 27 Jan. 131/3 Baited gorge~hooks.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. xi. §3. 315 Gorge hooks are either single or double.
b. (In sense 6.)
gorge-curtain n.
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1862 N.Y. Tribune 19 Apr. The blindages over the casemates of the gorge-curtains [were] splintered and shivered.
gorge-line n.
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1661 S. Partridge Descr. Double Scale Proportion 93 The length of the Gorge-line in the made Fort, is 59,5.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 101 After having..stretched a cord m n four feet above the gorge line [etc.].
C2. † gorge-millar n. Scottish Obsolete ? a glutton.
gorge-circle n. in gearing, ‘the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution’ (Webster 1897).
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 67 Gryt glaschewe hedit gorge millaris.
Draft additions September 2013
gorge walking n. chiefly British a leisure activity in which participants travel along the course of a gorge or ravine, typically jumping into pools, climbing over rocks, etc.; cf. canyoning n. 2.
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1975 Guardian 16 Dec. 19/4 The second component concentrates on developing the necessary skills, such as..mountaineering and canoeing, river running and gorge walking.
1997 Independent on Sunday 20 July (Travel & Money section) 2/1 Gorge-walking is always exhausting, drenching and at some point in the day, challenging to your courage—or lack of it.
2007 T. Carr & K. Heyes Happy Campers 23 You can do almost any sporting activity you could wish for, from hill walking and kayaking to gorge walking and coast steering.
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† gorgen.2
Heraldry. Obsolete.
A bearing known only from the drawing given by Leigh; its interpretation was disputed (see quot. 1562). Not to be confounded with gorges, gurges n., which in some modern books of heraldry appears with the spelling gorge or gurge.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of domestic items > [noun] > water bouget
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1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 103 He beareth Sanguine, a Gorge, Argent. Thoughe this seeme vnlikely to be a water~budget, yet hath it long time bin so taken, and so blazed, and neuer of anie other fashion, then ye see in this escocheon.
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gorgen.3
/ɡɔːdʒ/, U.S. /ɡɔrdʒ/ An act of gorging oneself; a glut (of food, wine, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony
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1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiii. 99 A wreathed wrestler from a gorge of wine, He falls in pride.
1876 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 4) iv. 103 They have a heavy gorge about once in two or three days.
1890 Petrie in Statem. Palestine Explor. Fund Oct. 228 Thinking of nothing but the perfect gorge all the weary day [of the Ramadan fast].
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gorgev.
/ɡɔːdʒ/, U.S. /ɡɔrdʒ/ 1. intransitive. To fill the gorge; to feed greedily. (In early use, of a bird of prey.) Const. on, upon.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > eat voraciously
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to be worried, or worry oneself, ona1529
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to fall aboard——1603
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13.. K. Alis. 5625 Alle hei gorgen as a rauene.
1486 Bk. St. Albans C viij She goorgith when she fillith hir goorge with meete.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. i. 81 On our former Ensigne Two mighty Eagles..pearch'd, Gorging and feeding from our Soldiers hands. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 53 The very garbage that drawes together all the fowles of prey and ravin in the land to come, and gorge upon the Church.
1795 Gentleman's Mag. July 619/1 He gorged so much at a neighbour's as to stop all the functions of Nature, and he was actually suffocated with a good meal.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 24 They..like hounds of a base breed, Gorge from a stranger's hand, and rend their master.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed iii. 44 Dick fell upon eggs and bacon and gorged till he could gorge no more.
2. transitive.
a. To fill the gorge of; to stuff with food; to glut, satiate. Also with up. (Cf. engorge v. 1.)
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)] > feed (oneself) to excess
over-quatc1275
glutc1315
fill1340
stuffa1400
aglutc1400
agroten1440
grotenc1440
ingrotenc1440
sorporrc1440
replenisha1450
pegc1450
quatc1450
overgorgea1475
gorge1486
burst1530
cloy1530
saturate1538
enfarce1543
mast?1550
engluta1568
gull1582
ingurgitate1583
stall1583
forage1593
paunch1597
upbray1598
upbraid1599
surfeitc1600
surcharge1603
gormandize1604
overfeed1609
farcinate1634
repletiate1638
stodge1854
1486 Bk. St. Albans A iv b How ye shall gyde yow if yowre hawke be full goorged.
1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Dvii Surueiers the to be yt gredily gorge vp their couituse guttes.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iii. H iij b For whan he gorgyd had him self with meates & drinkings drownd.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Papar To gorge vp, to fill the gorge.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 111 He that makes his generation Messes to gorge his appetite. View more context for this quotation
1648 Hunting of Fox 21 The Fox..had..so gorg'd his guts that he could not squeeze himself out againe.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 83. ⁋7 Going to a Tavern to Dinner; or after being gorged there, to repeat the same with another Company at Supper.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 38 Our Men gorg'd themselves with it [sc. chocolate], and would eat no more.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §24. 163 We paint the giant..plundering the innocent traveller, and afterwards gorging himself with his half-living flesh.
1826 S. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 82 The king of the vultures first gorged himself.
1860 C. Kingsley Misc. (ed. 2) I. 189 When fish are gorged with their morning meal of green drakes.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 84 Being with his presence glutted, gordge, and full. View more context for this quotation
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 84 In this ease and idlenesse of life gorged with wealth.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 217 Heaven can gorge us with our own Desires.
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft vii. 203 Our dungeons are gorged with them.
1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxiii. 216 They were gorging themselves with plunder.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab xv. 293 Every press gorged, every sheet of paper occupied.
c. Said of that which is devoured: To glut.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)]
engorge1497
ingurgitate1570
guzzle1583
gurgitate1656
gorge1713
stuff1743
stow1833
1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv Nor would his slaughter'd army now have lain On Africk's sands..To gorge the Wolves and Vultures of Numidia.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 31 When his foul Basket gorges them no more.
3. To take into the gorge, to swallow; to devour greedily. †Also with in.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. vi. 15 in Wks. II So it [sc. pig] be eaten with a reformed mouth..not gorg'd in with gluttony, or greedinesse.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. v. 127 You must fish for him with a strong line..and let him have time to gorge your hook. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 434 As when a Vultur..Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids. View more context for this quotation
1817 S. T. Coleridge Sibylline Leaves (1862) 144 How could I bear To see them gorge their dainty fare?
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 119 When men of a certain sort..are in love, though they see the hook and the string..they gorge the bait nevertheless.
4.
a. To fill full, distend (a vein, organ, duct, or other vessel); to choke, choke up. Chiefly in past participle. (Cf. engorge v. 1b.)
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to capacity
gorge?a1513
pack1567
choke1712
to choke up1871
to pack out1914
a1513 [implied in: W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 Gor is tua grym ene ar gladderrit all about, And gorgeit lyk tua gutaris that war with glar stoppit. (at gorged adj.1 b)].
1572 [implied in: 1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxvii. 19 Gorgit waters ever gritter growis. (at gorged adj.1 b)].
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 108 In such cases..the veins have always been found particularly gorged with black blood.
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 381 The lobules of the liver soon become gorged with bile.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xx. 336 The water which is supposed to gorge the capillaries of the glacier.
1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals viii. 208 During excessive laughter..the head and face become gorged with blood, with the veins distended.
1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 158 [In Relapsing Fever] the kidneys are gorged and swollen.
b. intransitive. Of ice: to become fixed so as to form an obstruction. U.S.
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1852 Knickerbocker Aug. 157 After an hour's plunging through the ice, which had accumulated in such masses as almost to ‘gorge’, we came to where it lay.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxxiv. 738 The ice..gorged against a bluff bank in a short bend of the stream, and dammed the water.
5. To scoop out into gorges (see gorge n.1 7).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > erode [verb (transitive)] > cut channels or holes
gull1577
rout1726
wash1766
scour1773
gully1775
erode1830
gorge1849
ravine1858
ream1859
channel1862
canyon1878
to plough out1886
cañon1889
incise1893
runnel1920
1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) iii. 155 The whole surface [is] gorged out with valleys.
Derivatives
ˈgorging adj.
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1740 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer iv. 32 A strong, gorging, intoxicating Yeast-beaten Ale.
1883 Athenæum 29 Dec. 863/3 One passage which ought not to have been inserted..representing us as gorging gluttons.
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