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noun

Gullet n.

(Anat.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as:

(a)

A channel for water.

(b)

(Engin.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.

(c)

A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

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"Gullet" Quotes from Famous Books

... richest man in it, Masther," replied Thady. "I think, sir, my! gullet and his purse are much about the ...

— The Poor Scholar - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... attempt, had inundated his chin and mustache with the purple liquid—"Pshaw!" said he, on seeing the deserter raise his bottle in the air and allow its contents to trickle steadily and noiselessly down his expanded gullet; "Perrico beats us all." ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various

... This is not surprising when we remember that there is often a great difference between larva and imago in the nature of the food. The digestive canal of a caterpillar runs a fairly straight course through the body and consists of a gullet, stomach (mid-gut), intestine, and rectum; it is adapted for the digestion of solid food. In the butterfly there is one outgrowth of the gullet in the head—a pharyngeal sac adapted for sucking liquids; and another ...

— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter

... his own brains. Mark how the animal seizes his glass,—by heavens he will break it into a thousand fragments! See how he bows his lubberly head to meet half way the glorious cargo; how he slobbers the beverage over his unmeaning gullet, and chucks down the glass so as almost to break its stem after he has emptied it of its contents as if they had been jalap or castor-oil! Call you that taking a glass of wine? Sir, it is putting wine into your gullet as you would put small beer into a barrel,—but ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, - Issue 326, August 9, 1828 • Various

... was not wider than the eye of a needle. He opened the other so that it was as large as the mouth of a meadcup. He laid bare from his jawbone to his ear; he opened his mouth to his jaw [Note: Conjectured from the later description of Cuchulainn's distortion.] so that his gullet was visible. The hero's light rose from his head. Then he strikes at the boys. He overthrows fifty of them before they reached the door of Emain. Nine of them came over me and Conchobar as we were playing chess. Then he springs over the chessboard after the nine. Conchobar ...

— The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) • Unknown

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