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.
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.
Gorgeous.
The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
A channel for water.
A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
The throat or esophagus.
The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
The space between the teeth of a saw blade.