gullet

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɡʌl.ɪt/ (UK)
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/ˈɡʌl.ɪt/ (UK) · /ˈɡʌl.ət/ (UK)

Definition of gullet

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

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

verb

  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.”

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Etymology

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

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