Gullet
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The throat or esophagus.
"Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself."
- 2 the passage between the pharynx and the stomach wordnet
- 3 The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
- 4 The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
- 5 A channel for water.
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- 6 A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
- 7 The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
- 1 To make grooves or indentations.
"The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted."
Example
More examples"You could see the oblong shape of the rat as it passed down the snake's gullet."
Etymology
From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).
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