Gor"fly` (?), n.; pl. Gorflies (#). [Gore (AS. gor) dung + fly.]
(Zoˆl.) A dung fly.
Gorge (?), n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga
abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr.
gargara whirlpool, gr. 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: (a) A defile between mountains.
(b) 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.