Narrow-gutted

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Narrow in the beam; Not as wide as is conventional for a vessel of comparable length.

    "In this case Rolf Eliasson has opted for length, although an 8'5" beam isn't excessively narrow-gutted on a 25'7” LWL."

  2. 2
    Having a thin abdomen, especially when sickly or hungry.

    "A round-barrelled, trussy horse of a hardy constitution will bear a dose of medicine which would be destruction to a slight and narrow-gutted one, and you should therefore be extremely cautious how you administer such quantities as you may occasionally see prescribed as physic in veterinary works, without previously ascertaining, as far as you can, the capabilities of your horse for sustaining their operation."

  3. 3
    Thin; narrow.

    "It is a narrow-gutted piece of country, any way: there are only about thirty miles dividing the east coast from the west coast at certain points, and the Kaipara Harbour and Wairoa River will always be deadly competitors with any line of railway constructed between Whangarei and Dargaville."

  4. 4
    Cheap and/or minimal.

    "I thought, however, that Dr. Clarke made it appear, as plain as the nose in your face, that the great scholar who was absent was the enemy of Christendom; that such Popish notions as his ought not to be tolerated; and that, in short, the sooner he gave up his professorship the better, if he had arrived at these years, and did not know what true, sound, round-about Christianity was; that it embraced all people, nations, and languages, upon the face of the earth; and, scorning the little paltry, narrow-gutted gate belonging to the priests, bolted, like a giant, plump out of the spacious portals of the temple at once; that this was your "pure religion, and undefiled;" and that for the Bible to take a travelling companion, by way of corrective, was mere Gallimatia, and a disgrace to common sense."

  5. 5
    Overly frugal; stingy.

    "They replied trade we should not take notice of the that their narrow-gutted employer would not allow them to make more than eight hours per day, because because he always charged full time for them to his customers, which they could prove."

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  1. 6
    Small-minded; conventional and unadventurous;

    "But nothing is accidental in Final Alice: the jokes are all so musical and composed with such mastery as to silence narrow-querulousness about content."

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"In this case Rolf Eliasson has opted for length, although an 8'5" beam isn't excessively narrow-gutted on a 25'7” LWL."

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