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Borrowed from French demi-gorge.

demigorge (plural demigorges)

  1. (military) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the centre of the bastion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “demigorge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)