A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
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 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.
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.
The part of the alimentary canal immediately behind the mouth in invertebrates that may be thickened and muscular, eversible and toothed, or adapted as a suctorial organ.
The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.