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/gˈələt/ Listen

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

... Cataline had hurled his victim to the earth, and cast himself upon him; choking his cries for help by the compression of his sinewy fingers, which grasped with a tenacity little inferior to that of an iron vice the miserable wretch's gullet. ...

— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) • Henry William Herbert

... perceive that during the rainy season the ravine was filled with water, but at present its bed was entirely dry. On the walls, on both sides, grew small patches of grass, a great many thorns, and here and there even a tree. Gebhr directed his way by this stony gullet because it went continually upwards; so he thought that it would lead him to some eminence from which he could descry smoke during the daytime and Smain's camp-fires at night. In some places the ravine became so narrow that only two horses could go side by side; in other places ...

— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... astride the prostrate Visayan in the midst of the broken crockery and bent tinware spilled from the upset table. He had the cook's mouth pried open in determined endeavor to ram what looked like half a chicken down the Visayan's gullet. Half-strangled and crazed with fear the cook rolled his ...

— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson

... back part of the mouth passes a tube, called the oesophagus or gullet, its upper end is wide and open, spread behind the tongue to receive the masticated aliment: the lower part of this pipe, after it has passed through the thorax, and pierced the diaphragm, enters the stomach, which is a membranous bag, situated under the left side of the diaphragm: its ...

— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia - Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease • Thomas Garnett

... loosely, and placed it under Jan's head. Then he reached for his spoon, and proceeded to force down a little more warm whisky and milk beside the clenched jaws. One knew, by the way he lifted one of Jan's flews, raised the dog's head, and gently rubbed his gullet between thumb and forefinger to help the liquor down, that he had handled sick dogs before to-day. He had covered Jan's body with an old buffalo robe, and now he proceeded to fill a jar with boiling water, and placed ...

— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson

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