different between gorget vs gorged

English

Etymology

From Old French gorgete, from gorge (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????d??t/

Noun

gorget (plural gorgets)

1. (historical) A piece of armour for the throat.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2

     About his neck a threefold gorget, / As rough as trebled leathern target

   • 1968, Michael Moorcock, The Mad God's Amulet, Gollancz 2003, p. 209:

     Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget.

   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 500:

     Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.

2. (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
3. An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
4. (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
5. A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

6. (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
7. (Britain, dialect, Cornwall) A hake caught in a net set for other fish.

Derived terms

• gorget hummer
• gorgeted

Translations

English

Etymology

gorge +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????d?d/

Adjective

gorged (not comparable)

1. With a stomach stuffed full of food.
   • 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

     Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

2. (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
3. Having a gorge or throat.

Translations

Verb

gorged

1. simple past tense and past participle of gorge

Related terms

• engorged
• gorge

Anagrams

• Dogger, dogger, rogged