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What does gorge mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gorge? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  2. The throat or gullet.
  3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
  5. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  6. (nautical) The groove of a pulley.
  7. (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook, consisting of an object easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
  8. (heraldry) A whirlpool.
Verb
  1. (reflexive, often followed by on) To eat greedily and in large quantities.
  2. To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  3. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
Adjective
  1. (Britain, slang) Gorgeous.
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