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noun

Gut n.

1.

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

2.

An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

3.

One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

4.

The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.

Blind gut. See Caecum, n. (b).

verb

Gut v. t. (past & past part. gutted; pres. part. gutting)

1.

To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

2.

To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house. "Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased."

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"Gut" Quotes from Famous Books

... nor Scott, I think, was crafty enough to imitate the prosaic drawl of the printed broadside ballad, or the feeble interpolations with which the "gangrel scrape-gut," or bankelsanger, supplied gaps in his memory. The modern complete ballad-faker WOULD introduce such abject verses, but Scott and Hogg desired to decorate, not to debase, ballads with which they intermeddled, and we track them ...

— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang

... was practically an underground dwelling, and the entrance was through a snow tunnel. From a single seal-gut window a dim light shone, but there was no other sign of human life. I groped my way into the tunnel, bent half double, stepping upon and stumbling over numerous dogs that blocked the way, and at the farther end bumped into a door. Upon pushing this open I found myself in a room perhaps ...

— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace

... pounds of beef, some sugar and some tea, That’s all they give to a hungry man, until the Seventh Day. If you don’t be moighty sparing, you’ll go with a hungry gut— For that’s one of the great misfortunes in ...

— The Old Bush Songs • A. B. Paterson

... to use a light fiddle string, served with waxed silk at the trigger catch; if this be omitted the gut gets worn through very quickly. In order to decide how far it is permissible to bend the bow, the quickest way is to make a rough experiment on a bit of the same plank from which the bow is to be cut, and then to allow a small factor of safety. In the ...

— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall

... to be an eel, but he broke the line through getting it entangled in a stick on the bottom. Three weeks afterwards, when fishing in the same fashion and in the same place, the line got fixed up on the bottom. I pulled hard and a stick came away. On that stick, strange to say, was entangled my old gut casting-line, and at the end of the line was an eel of two pounds' weight! On cutting him open, there, sure enough, was the identical clipped salmon fly; it had been inside that eel for three weeks without hurting ...

— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs

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