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.
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 lever or pedal that controls this valve.
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.