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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 passes to the stomach.

    Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
    --Spenser.

    Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.
    --Shak.

  2. A narrow passage or entrance; as:

    1. A defile between mountains.

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

  3. 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.
    --Spenser.

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

  5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
    --Gwilt.

  6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.

  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.

    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.