gavage
n.
5Fr < gaver, to stuff: see GAVOTTE6 the administration of liquids through a stomach tube, as in forced feeding

I was taught that it was a contraction of "gastric lavage" - and it is most often used for aspirating
overdoses of medication in an accident floor (I think).
I get a laugh out of allegation it is related to "gavotte". When and Fannie backed into the rollers of
a 1920 clothes wringer (the type few of you have ever seen, with two horizontal rubber rollers that
squeezed the water out of the clothes) she danced the Ascot Gavptte.