(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.