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noun

Glut n.

1.

That which is swallowed.

2.

Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market. "A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence."

3.

Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

4.

(a)

A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. (Prov. Eng.)

(b)

(Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing..

(c)

(Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.

(d)

(Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.

(e)

A block used for a fulcrum.

5.

(Zool.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

verb

Glut v. t. (past & past part. glutted; pres. part. glutting)

1.

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. "Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him."

2.

To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. "His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes." "The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace."

To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

Glut v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety. "Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glut" Quotes from Famous Books

... demoralized by long lying around in a waiting posture. It had taken the fire and sparkle out of them. They were not in a healthy state. They were degraded, contracted, flaccid. They did not hold themselves high. They knew that in a marketable point of view there was a frightful glut of women. The usually small ratio of men was unusually diminished by the absence of those who had gone to the war, and of those who, as was currently reported, were ashamed that they had not gone. The few available men had it all their own way; the women were on the look-out ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... his country's battle fought and fell, The foremost champion—duly bury him With all observances and ceremonies That are the guerdon of the heroic dead. But for the miscreant exile who returned Minded in flames and ashes to blot out His father's city and his father's gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood, Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels— For Polyneices 'tis ordained that none Shall give him burial or make mourn for him, But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat For dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight. So am I purposed; never by my will ...

— The Oedipus Trilogy • Sophocles

... wise people say that all registers should be sent to London, to the Record Office or the British Museum. That would be an impossibility. The officials of those institutions would tremble at the thought, and the glut of valuable books would make reference a toil that few could undertake. The real solution of the difficulty is that county councils should provide accommodation for all deeds and documents, that all registers should be transcribed, that copies should be deposited ...

— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... their ruin ... and I also swore to God that if He would permit me to glut my vengeance I would surrender to Him the child that was left to me. This is the reason why I objected to you. But now I do not know: was it His will, or did you awaken His ...

— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... drain of the Flemish campaign, their action was tardy. The schisms between Royalists and Republicans at the city of Cap Francais enabled the negroes to burst in at midsummer of 1793 with fire and knife and glut their vengeance on some thousands of persons. Even after these atrocities the Jacobin commissioners continued to make use of the blacks in order to enforce their levelling decree; and the year ended amid long drawn out scenes of murder, rape, and pillage. By these infamous means ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

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