▪ I. gorged, ppl. a.1
(gɔːdʒd)
[f. gorge v. + -ed1.]
Fed to the full, crammed with food.
| 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 694 The full-fed Hound, or gorged Hawke. a 1626 Middleton Witch i. i. 35 Here's marriage sweetly honour'd in gorg'd stomachs And overflowing cups! 1704 Swift Batt. Bks. (1750) 29 The Refuse of gorged Wolves. 1836 Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xvi. 213 The animal lay stretched at full length on the ground, like a gorged cat. 1885 Truth 28 May 848/2 A flock of gorged cormorants sitting on rocks by the sea. |
| transf. 1605 A. Warren Poor Mans Pass. E 3 Some Vsurer..Whose gorged chests surfet with cramming gold. |
† b. Sc. Stopped up, choked. Obs.
| 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 99 Gory is his tua grym ene gladderrit all about, And gorgeit lyk twa gutaris that wer with glar stoppit. 1572 Satir. Poems Reform. xxxvii. 19 Gorgit waters ever gritter growis. |
▪ II. gorged, ppl. a.2
(gɔːdʒd)
[f. gorge n.1 + -ed2.]
1. Her. Having the gorge or neck encircled (with a coronet, etc.).
| 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xxvi. 184 He beareth..a Lion Rampand..Gorged with a Coller. 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. ii. (1743) 53 An unicorn, argent, gorged with a crown. 1763 Brit. Mag. IV. 28 On the dexter-side, a lion guardant, or, gorged ducally, argent. 1823 Rutter Fonthill p. xxiii, A Heron's head erased, Or, gorged with a collar. 1868 in Cussans Her. vi. (1893) 90. |
† 2. Farriery. Affected with the ‘gorge’ (see gorge n.1 8).
| 1688 Lond. Gaz. No. 2395/4 A bright bay Mare,..something gorged in her near Footlock before. 1701 Ibid. No. 3725/4 A slight Nutmeg-grey Mare..gorg'd in both Legs before. 1753 [see disgorge v. 3]. |
3. Hollowed out as a gorge or pass. rare.
| 1871 Vermont Hist. Gazetteer II. 741/1 Belonging to the mountain scenery..is..a deeply gorged mountain pass. |