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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gullet" Quotes from Famous Books

... tongue, intrinsic as well as extrinsic, were extremely well developed. The isthmus faucium was 3 inches long. All this part was extremely glandular. A well-marked muscular gullet followed, composed of two layers of muscular fibres,—one circular internally, and one longitudinal externally. These latter sent a slip to the base of the arytaenoid cartilages. The mucous membrane of the gullet ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... 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

... the doctor, rising and hastening to collect his instruments and medicine pouch, "thou hast circumvented me. Why did you not tell me before? Here have I been pouring cider into your royal gullet, when I should have hastened to take a bullet out of some plebeian carcass. Can you tell me the name of ...

— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams

... missing this morning; suspect Ham of stealing it—A pigeon fluttered down on deck with a green leaf fast in its gullet and half choked; pulled leaf out; pigeon must have been somewhere else and got it; will keep to the eastward ...

— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson

... beginning in the skull and running through the neck-bones, along the spine, and ending in the tail, containing the brain and the spinal marrow, which are extremely important organs. The second great cavity, commencing with the mouth, contains the gullet, the stomach, the long intestine, and all the rest of those internal apparatus which are essential for digestion; and then in the same great cavity, there are lodged the heart and all the great ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

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