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† vorage Obs. rare.
[a. OF. vorage, or ad. L. vorāgo vorago.]
A whirlpool, gulf, chasm.
1490Caxton Eneydos x. 39 On that other syde cam vpon theym Neptunus wyth all his vorages and wawes alle full of scume. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1537) A iv b, The famous Romayn: whiche for to delyuer the towne of Rome..yelded hym selfe to the same vorage, that as than was sene in Rome. [1623Cockeram, Vorage, a Quagmire.] |