n. - The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
n. - A narrow passage or entrance
n. - A defile between mountains.
n. - The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
n. - That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
n. - A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
n. - A concave molding; a cavetto.
n. - The groove of a pulley.
n. - To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
n. - To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
v. i. - To eat greedily and to satiety.
n. - A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.