gorge fishing

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gorge fishing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.
                                                    --Shak.
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     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.
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     3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or
        other fowl.
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              And all the way, most like a brutish beast,
              e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an
        obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
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     5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt.
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     6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
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     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.
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     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.
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