Other forms: gorges
A gorge is a deep narrow rocky valley cut by a river. A limestone gorge, walk the gorge, the gorge below.
It forms where a river cuts down faster than the sides can wear back, which needs hard rock and fast erosion together. As a verb, to gorge is to eat greedily, and the noun and verb share a root meaning the throat. My gorge rises means I feel sick.
1noungorgeA deep narrow rocky valley.
“The river has cut a deep gorge through the mountains.”
2verbeatTo eat greedily.
“The children gorged themselves on cake and sweets at the party.”
gorge is a valley, or an eating.
Also accepted in games: ravine, canyon
Old French gorge means the throat, from Latin gurges, a whirlpool or gulf. The valley sense came from the narrow shape.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷerh₃- — to devour, swallow; to eat
Latin
gurges — eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea
Vulgar Latin
*gorga
Old French
gorge — throat
Middle English
gorge — esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten
English, today
gorge
Built from
From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin gorga, gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European gʷerh₃- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”). a doublet of gour and gurges.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA