gurges
(ˈgɜːdʒiːz)
Also 7 gorges, 9 dial. gurgise.
[a. L. gurges whirlpool.]
A whirlpool, gulf; dial. a pool, pond.
| 1664 Cotton Scarron. i. 19 Here a Boat kicking on the Surges, And there one sinking in a Gurges. 1668 Phil. Trans. III. 633 There may be a very Low Ebb, though no High-Spring, which they terme an Out-let or Gurges of the Sea. 1875 Sussex Gloss., Gurgise, a fish-pool; lake or pond. |
b. Her. A charge consisting of a spiral of two narrow bands, intended to represent a whirlpool, and blazoned argent and azure.
| 1661 Morgan Sph. Gentry 19 A Gurges, or Whirlpoole proper, by the name of Gorges, here the Field is not named at all, by reason it doth fill up all the vacuity of the Field, and is always Azure and Argent, the proper colour of water. 1823 in Crabb Technol. Dict. |