gorge vs pluck

gorge

noun
  • An act of gorging. 

  • 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. 

  • A concave moulding; a cavetto. 

adj
  • Gorgeous. 

verb
  • 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. 

pluck

noun
  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

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