gorge
/ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/ noun B2- The throat of a flower.
- 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.
- A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself. · an ice gorge in a river
- A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- 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.
- 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.
- A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- The groove of a pulley.
Plural gorges
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“Full gorge and a deep sleep to you, Rann,” cried Bagheera.
Fernand was a Spaniard, and being sent to Spain to ascertain the feeling of his fellow-countrymen, found Danglars there, got on very intimate terms with him, won over the support of the royalists at the capital and in the provinces, received promises and made pledges on his own part, guided his regiment by paths known to himself alone through the mountain gorges which were held by the royalists, and, in fact, rendered such services in this brief campaign that, after the taking of Trocadero, he was made colonel, and received the title of count and the cross of an officer of the Legion of Honor.”
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