gorges

Noun

gorge (plural gorges)

1. (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
   • His gall did grate for griefe and high diſdaine,
     And knitting all his force got one hand free,
     Wherewith he grypt her gorge with ſo great paine,
     That ſoone to looſe her wicked bands did her co[n]ſtraine.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19, page 9
2. (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
   • I wil tel you, Scholer, that unleſs the hook be faſt in his [the trout's] very Gorge, he wil live, and a little time with the help of the water, wil ruſt the hook, & it wil in time wear away as the gravel does in the horſe hoof, which only leaves a falſe quarter.1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], chapter IV, in The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC...
3. The throat of a flower.
4. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
   • My gorge rises at the sight of it.
5. (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
   • an ice gorge in a river
6. A concave moulding; a cavetto.
   • GORGE, Gula, in architecture, the narroweſt part of Tuſcan and Doric capitals, lying between the aſtragal, above the ſhaft of the pillar and the annulets. […] It is alſo uſed for a concave moulding, larger, but not ſo deep as a ſcotia, which ſerves for compartments, &c.[1764, Temple Henry Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark [et al.], “GORGE”, in The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. …, volume I, London: Printed for the authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J....

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