† voragen.
Obsolete. rare.
A whirlpool, gulf, chasm.
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1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos x. 39 On that other syde cam vpon theym Neptunus wyth all his vorages and wawes alle full of scume.
a1533 Ld. Berners in tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) Prol. sig. Aivv 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.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Vorage, a Quagmire.]
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