Definition of "gurge"

gurge¹

/ˈɡɜɹdʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged
1. (obsolete) To swallow up.

gurge²

/ˈɡɜɹdʒ/

noun
plural gurges
1. (obsolete outside heraldry) Synonym of gurges (“whirlpool”).
  Quotations
  The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurgeBoils out from under ground […]
  1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎, Book 12, lines 41-42