Definition of gorge

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

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Gorge :: Gorge (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl..
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies..
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..
Overgorge :: Overgorge (v. t.) To gorge to excess.
Gleam :: Gleam (v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk..
Gorged :: Gorged (a.) Having a gorge or throat.
Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.
Fleche :: Fleche (n.) A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge..
Viaduct :: Viaduct (n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework..
Ingorge :: Ingorge (v. t. & i.) See Engorge.
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A ruff worn by women.
Gorgelet :: Gorgelet (n.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird..
Regorge :: Regorge (v. t.) To swallow again; to swallow back.
Couloir :: Couloir (n.) A deep gorge; a gully.
Shrill-gorged :: Shrill-gorged (a.) Having a throat which produces a shrill note.
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river..
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A narrow passage or entranc.
Demigorge :: Demigorge (n.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion..
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