gullet

[guhl-it]

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noun

the esophagus.

the throat or pharynx.

a channel for water.

a gully or ravine.

a preparatory cut in an excavation.

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

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of gullet

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

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Related Words for gullet

throat, craw, maw, esophagus

Examples from the Web for gullet

Historical Examples of gullet

When I ask a fellow: 'Old man, what do you want to wet your gullet?'
A Nest of Spies
Pierre Souvestre
But this I know—that if you intend us treachery you shall have my knife in your gullet for your pains.
The Shame of Motley
Raphael Sabatini
Well, suppose they did squeeze his gullet up there on a scaffold!
Mayflower (Flor de mayo)
Vicente Blasco Ibez
The only thing that sticks in my gullet is that fifty per cent.
The Trail of '98
Robert W. Service
But it soon became certain that there was no egress from this gullet.
The English at the North Pole
Jules Verne

British Dictionary definitions for gullet

gullet

noun

a less formal name for the oesophagus Related adjective: oesophageal

the throat or pharynx

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

Word Origin for gullet

C14: from Old French goulet, diminutive of goule throat, from Latin gula throat

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Word Origin and History for gullet

c.1300 (as a surname), from Old French golet "neck (of a bottle); gutter; bay, creek," diminutive of gole "throat, neck" (Modern French guele), from Latin gula "throat," also "appetite," from PIE root *gwele- "swallow" (cf. Latin gluttire "to gulp down, devour," Old English ceole "throat," Old Church Slavonic glutu "gullet," Old Irish gelim "I devour").

gullet in Medicine

gullet

[gŭl′ĭt]

n.

The esophagus.

The throat.