GORGE

(Fr.) In Fortification, the entrance into a bastion or other outwork. The gorge of a bastion is what remains of the sides of the polygon of a place after cutting off the curtains. The gorge of a ravelin, or demilune, is the space between the two ends of the faces next the place. The dem i-eorge is that part of the polygon between the fiank and tne centre of the bastion. See Fortification. Gorge. In Architecture, the same as cavetlo, which see. [s. 533]