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Gullet

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the passage between the pharynx and the stomach wordnet
  3. 3
    The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
  4. 4
    The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
  5. 5
    A channel for water.
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  1. 6
    A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
  2. 7
    The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
Verb
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

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