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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 gorge /ˈgɔrʤ/
 峽谷,飽食,咽喉(vi.)狼吞虎嚥(vt.)塞飽

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gorge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gorged p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging ]
 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
    The fish has gorged the hook.   --Johnson.
 2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
    The giant gorged with flesh.   --Addison.
    Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.   --Dryden.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gorge, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 gorge
      n 1: a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
      2: a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) [syn: defile]
      3: the passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus,
          oesophagus, gullet]
      v : overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She
          stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on
          icecream" [syn: ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut,
           stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize,
           gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate,
           scarf out]