gullet
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
/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
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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
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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.”
- The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
- The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
- A channel for water.
- A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
- The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
verb
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.
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