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(1):

(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.

(2):

(n.) A defile between mountains.

(3):

(n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

(4):

(n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

(5):

(v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

(6):

(n.) The groove of a pulley.

(7):

(n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

(8):

(n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

(9):

(n.) A narrow passage or entrance

(10):

(n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

(11):

(n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; - usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

(12):

(n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Orge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/orge.html. 1828.
 
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