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gorget | gorge |

As a noun gorget

is (historical) a piece of armour for the throat.

As a verb gorge is

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gorget

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A piece of armour for the throat.
  • * 1663 ,
    • About his neck a threefold gorget , / As rough as trebled leathern target
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
  • * 1968 , (Michael Moorcock), The Mad God's Amulet , Gollancz 2003, p. 209:
    • Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget .
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 500:
    • Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
  • (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
  • An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
  • * 1917 , (Washington Irving), :
    • There was
  • (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  • A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
    • (Dunglison)
  • (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * gorget hummer

    gorge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl), from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  • * '>citation
  • The throat or gullet.
  • * Spenser
    • Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
  • That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • * Spenser
    • And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
  • A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
    • an ice gorge in a river
  • (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (nautical) The groove of a pulley.

    • Verb

    (gorg)
  • To eat greedily and in large quantities.
    • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
  • To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • * Johnson
    • The fish has gorged the hook.
  • To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • * Dryden
    • Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
  • * Addison
    • The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
    Derived terms
    * disgorge * engorge

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from gorgeous .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (UK, slang) Gorgeous.
    • Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?

    Anagrams

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