Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whirlpool.
- To swallow; engulf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To swallow up.
- noun obsolete A whirlpool.
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- verb obsolete To
swallow up .
Etymologies
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See gorge.
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Examples
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Aussie band Regurgitator ( "the 'gurge") are planning to record their fifth full-length album locked inside a plastic bubble in the middle of Melbourne's Federation Square.
Boing Boing: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives 2004
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The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground, the mouth of Hell;
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And he's strong, and brave -- and yet ---- "Vividly to her mind came the picture of the wildly rushing flood with its burden of tossing trees, and the man being swept straight into the gurge of it.
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"Heaving in pain, and horribly convuls'd
With sanguine feverous boiling gurge of pulse."
- Keats, Hyperion
February 12, 2008