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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1513, 1585-1598, 1666-1681
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Gorge, v. Also: jorg. [ME. gorge (14th c.), OF. gorger, but in this sense app. only Sc. before the 19th c.] tr. To choke, stop up. Also intr., to become choked. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 99.
His twa grym ene … [are] gorgeit lyk twa gutaris that wer with glar stoppit 1513 Doug. vi. ii. 58.
The layk dyrk Of Acheron, gorgeit with fludis myrk 1585 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 414.
That nane suffer thair priveis to gorge, brek, and rin owt in the streits 1598 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 170.
That … Mollisoun hes done wrang in causing rais the calsey … by resoun quhairof the water is gorgit 1666 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 84.
Divers persones … who hes … killes narrest the said syre, castis in stra, … quhilk stops the passage of the water … and jorgs wp so that filth and myre is made to be sein in the gutters [infra, to the effect the passage of the watter be nocht gorged or impeided] 1681 Stirling Comm. Good MS. 155.
To the workmen that brok the ice that was gorged at the bridge
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