gurge

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Verb

gurge (gurges, present participle gurging; past and past participle gurged)

1. (obsolete) To swallow up.

Noun

gurge (plural gurges)

1. (obsolete) A whirlpool.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 12, lines 41-42,^{[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_XII]}

     The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge

     Boils out from under ground […]

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