gurge

American  

[gurj] / gɜrdʒ /

noun

plural

gurges

1. a whirlpool.

2. Also called whirlpool.  Heraldry. Also a charge covering the entire field of an escutcheon and having the form either of a spirallike scroll or of a number of concentric rings, the whole field having two tinctures.

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verb (used without object)

gurged, gurging

1. to swirl like a whirlpool.

Etymology

Origin of gurge

First recorded in 1515–25, gurge is from the Latin word gurges whirlpool

Example Sentences

At all gates the clangours gurge in, God's paludament lightens, see!

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

Vividly to her mind came the picture of the wildly rushing flood with its burden of tossing trees, and the man being swept straight into the gurge of it.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)