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(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

(archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.

(architectural element) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

(architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.

(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

To stuff the gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.

To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

An act of gorging.

(slang) Gorgeous.