Definitions for gurges

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Spelling: [gurj]

IPA: /gɜrdʒ/

Gurges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in gurges (eggrsu).

Definitions for gurges

noun

1. a whirlpool.
2. Also, gorge. Also called whirlpool. Heraldry. 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.

verb (used without object)

1. to swirl like a whirlpool.

Origin of gurges

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

Examples for gurges

The sight of its heavy verdure and of its gurges heaped high with froth lifts them like immortal thoughts.

Sinus duo sunt maiores, vastque; alter is, qui S. Laurentij gurges; alter, qui Francius appellatur.