▪ I. gurge, n. rare.
(gɜːdʒ)
Also gorge.
[ad. L. gurges abyss, whirlpool.]
A whirlpool (lit. and fig.); Her. = gurges b.
| 1667 Milton P.L. xii. 41 The Plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boiles out from under ground, the mouth of Hell. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Gurge, a Whirl-Pool. 1820 Keats Hyperion ii. 28 Horribly convulsed With sanguine, feverous, boiling gurge of pulse. 1868 Cussans Her. vii. (1882) 116 Gorge, or Gurge,..a whirlpool... This Charge covers the entire Field, and is blazoned Argent and Azure. 1893 M. Field Underneath Bough 9 Life's a tortured, booming gurge. |
▪ II. gurge, v.
(gɜːdʒ)
[f. L. gurges whirlpool.]
† 1. trans. To turn into a whirlpool.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. i. 1 All great ryuers are gurged..of diuers surges and sprynges of water. |
2. intr. To make a whirlpool, to swirl, surge. Also ˈgurging ppl. a.
| 1578 Mirr. Mag., Sigebert xiv, In gurging gulfe of these such surging seas. 1893 Daily News 28 Jan. 3/1 The water rises up one gurging mass of white foam. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 73 At all gates the clangours gurge in, God's paludament lightens, see! |