gullet

American  

[guhl-it] / ˈgʌl ɪt /

noun

1. the esophagus.

2. the throat or pharynx.

3. a channel for water.

4. a gully or ravine.

5. a preparatory cut in an excavation.

6. a concavity between two sawteeth, joining them at their bases.

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verb (used with object)

1. to form a concavity at the base of (a sawtooth).

gullet British  

/ ˈɡʌlɪt /

noun

1. a less formal name for the oesophagus

2. the throat or pharynx

3. mining quarrying a preliminary cut in excavating, wide enough to take the vehicle that removes the earth

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Etymology

Origin of gullet

1350–1400; Middle English golet < Old French goulet ≪ Latin gula throat; -et

Example Sentences

Their gill arch system forms a funnel that is widest at the mouth and narrows toward the gullet.

From Science Daily

As this pink delicacy was halfway down my gullet, you screamed out, “Tidbit, that’s the prop! We still need to shoot a closeup from another angle.”

From Los Angeles Times

Mobula rays feed by swimming open-mouthed through plankton-rich regions of the ocean and filtering plankton particles into their gullet as water streams into their mouths and out through their gills.

From Science Daily

Visitors slid down the pole in “The Fire Cat,” slithered into the gullet of the boa constrictor in “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and lounged in a faux bubble bath in “Harry the Dirty Dog.”

From New York Times

After days of agony, success is a room of people glancing at Lizzy’s work while stuffing their gullets with cheese.

From Los Angeles Times