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 Gorge n.
 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.
 6. Naut. The groove of a pulley.
 7. Angling A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
 Gorge circle Gearing, the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.
 Circle of the gorge Math., a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis.
 Gorge fishing, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.
 Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. --Knight.