the throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.-a narrow passage or entrance-a defile between mountains.-the entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. see illust. of bastion.-that which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.-a filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.-a concave molding; a cavetto.-the groove of a pulley.-to swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.-to glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.-to eat greedily and to satiety.