Gorge hook

Gorge hook
Gorge Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. [1913 Webster]

Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of {Bastion}. [1913 Webster]

3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. [1913 Webster]

And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. [1913 Webster]

5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]

6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. [1913 Webster]

7. (Angling) 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Gorge circle} (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.

{Circle of the gorge} (Math.), a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis.

{Gorge fishing}, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.

{Gorge hook}, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. --Knight. [1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl.]


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  • gorge hook — noun 1. : gorge 5 2. : a hook having two barbs : two hooks with shanks joined together * * * 1. a fishhook with two barbed prongs; a hook made by fastening two hooks back to back at the shanks. 2. gorge (def. 8). [1865 70] …   Useful english dictionary

  • gorge hook — 1. a fishhook with two barbed prongs; a hook made by fastening two hooks back to back at the shanks. 2. gorge (def. 8). [1865 70] * * * …   Universalium

  • Gorge — Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Gorge circle — Gorge Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Gorge fishing — Gorge Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gorge — gorge1 gorgeable, adj. gorgedly /gawr jid lee/, adv. gorger, n. /gawrj/, n., v., gorged, gorging. n. 1. a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, esp. one through which a stream runs. 2. a small canyon. 3 …   Universalium

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  • Gorge — Gorge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gorged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gorging}.] [F. gorger. See {Gorge}, n.] 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. [1913 Webster] The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Circle of the gorge — Gorge Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gorge fishing — trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge …   Dictionary of ichthyology

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