1. (n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

2. (n.) A narrow passage or entrance

3. (n.) A defile between mountains.

4. (n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear.

5. (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

6. (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

7. (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

8. (n.) The groove of a pulley.

9. (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

10. (n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

11. (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

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