gorge vs gorget

gorge

noun
  • The groove of a pulley. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A concave moulding; a cavetto. 

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. 

adj
  • Gorgeous. 

gorget

noun
  • A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget. 

  • A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest. 

  • A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon. It was used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a full-dress military uniform by officers. It symbolically represented the neck-armor worn by officers in previous centuries. 

  • A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. 

  • A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. 

  • A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple. 

  • An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc. 

  • A hake caught in a net set for other fish. 

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