gorge

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  1. noun A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  2. noun A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.
  3. noun The throat; the gullet: The gory sight made my gorge rise.
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  • Near the bridge and high above the river-gorge was the pub. —  The Murder of Busy Lizzie - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
  • About thirteen leagues up the gorge is a cave that almost no one knows about. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • It seemed that even if this gorge was the birthplace of the race, nobody really wanted to visit it. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • More glistening oil mixed with what already painted the seats, and here and there it caught fire Urza gazed up through the rising ring of sulfur smoke There frozen in time above the gorge was the figure of an ornithopter. —  J
  • Then this piece can decide whether to help the other piece get out again or leave it to perish in the gorge - in other words, it can adopt the role of a hero or a villain. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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ravine ·  chasm ·  precipice ·  glen ·  valley ·  ridge ·  cavern ·  bluff ·  fissure ·  waterfall ·  ledge ·  creek

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gorge:   gorges ·  gorged ·  gorging
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, throat, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga, perhaps from Latin gurges, whirlpool, abyss.

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  1. from Middle English gorge, the throat, from Old French gorge, the throat, gullet, French gorge, the throat, a narrow pass, a gorge, = Provencal gorga, gorja = Spanish Portuguese gorja = Italian gorga, gorgia, the throat, gullet (Middle Latin gorgia, the throat, a narrow pass, Middle Latin gorga, gurga, a whirlpool), from Latin gurges, a whirlpool, an abyss. Cf. Latin gurgulio, the gullet; Sanskrit gargara, a whirlpool, a redupl. form from √ gar, swallow. Cf. gargle, gargoyle, gurgle, etc.
  2. from Middle English gorgen, intransitive, gorge, from Old French (also F.) gorger, devour greedily, from gorge, the gullet: see gorge, n.
 

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