Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - gorgas

 biographical name William Crawford 1854-1920 American army surgeon & sanitation expert GORGE  I. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin gurga, alteration of gurges, from Latin, whirlpool — more at voracious  Date: 14th century  1. throat — often used with rise to indicate revulsion accompanied by a sensation of constriction my ~ rises at the sight of blood  2.  a. a hawk's crop  b. stomach, belly  3. the entrance into an outwork (as a bastion) of a fort  4. a narrow passage through land; especially a narrow steep-walled canyon or part of a canyon  5. a primitive device used instead of a fishhook that consists of an object (as a piece of bone attached in the middle of a line) easy to swallow but difficult to eject  6. a mass choking a passage a river dammed by an ice ~  7. the line on the front of a coat or jacket formed by the crease of the lapel and collar  II. verb  (~d; gorging)  Date: 14th century  intransitive verb to eat greedily or to repletion; also to partake of something in large amounts gorging on books  intransitive verb  1.  a. to stuff to capacity ; glut  b. to fill completely or to the point of distension veins ~d with blood  2. to consume greedily  Synonyms: see satiate  • ~r noun  III. noun  Date: 1854 the act or an instance of gorging