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Gorge and Valley Definitions

Gorge

A deep narrow valley with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

Valley

An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.

Gorge

A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.

Valley

An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.

Gorge

The throat; the gullet
The gory sight made my gorge rise.
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Valley

A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.

Gorge

The crop of a hawk.

Valley

An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often garnished with a river flowing through it.

Gorge

An instance of gluttonous eating.

Valley

An area which drains itself into a river.
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Gorge

The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.

Valley

Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Gorge

A mass obstructing a narrow passage
A shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge.

Valley

To form the shape of a valley.

Gorge

The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.

Valley

The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
The valley of the shadow of death.
Sweet interchangeOf hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.

Gorge

To stuff with food; glut
Gorged themselves with candy.

Valley

The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

Gorge

To devour greedily.

Valley

A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

Gorge

To eat gluttonously.

Gorge

(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

Gorge

The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

Gorge

Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

Gorge

(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
An ice gorge in a river

Gorge

(architectural element) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

Gorge

The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.

Gorge

(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is 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.

Gorge

(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

Gorge

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

Gorge

An act of gorging.

Gorge

To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. on
They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.

Gorge

(transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Gorge

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

Gorge

(transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

Gorge

(slang) Gorgeous.
Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?

Gorge

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.

Gorge

A narrow passage or entrance

Gorge

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
And all the way, most like a brutish beast,e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.

Gorge

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

Gorge

A concave molding; a cavetto.

Gorge

The groove of a pulley.

Gorge

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.

Gorge

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
The fish has gorged the hook.

Gorge

To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
The giant gorged with flesh.
Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.

Gorge

To eat greedily and to satiety.

Gorge

A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

Gorge

A narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

Gorge

The passage between the pharynx and the stomach

Gorge

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;
She stuffed herself at the dinner
The kids binged on icecream

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