The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains
the actual excavation, examination, analysis and interpretation.
the actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
the academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
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 deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
The groove of a pulley.
Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
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.
An act of gorging.
Gorgeous.
To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.