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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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Etymology of 'Gullet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gullet" Quotes from Famous Books

... a fiercer pain swept into my consciousness—the pain of gasping breath forcing air through a tortured gullet into suffocating lungs. ...

— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... boys, if you were to cover all that distance with twenty-dollar gold pieces six feet wide, and packed edge to edge, I wouldn't take them for our interest in that bit of ground. I see a fine big ranch in Manitoba for my share; ay, and hired help to run it. The only thing that sticks in my gullet is that fifty ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... your company and within a week some Madison Avenue advertising agency will be offering you several million dollars to let them convince people that Hickory-Chickory Coffee is the only stuff they can pour down their gullet without causing stomach pains, acid system, jittery nerves, sleepless nights, flat feet, upset glands, and so on and on and on. Announce it; the next day you'll have so many foreign spies in your bailiwick that ...

— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

... his old Ferintosh—that's all, Tim—off with you!—No! stop a minute!" and he filled up a beaker and handed it to the original, who, shutting both his eyes, suffered the fragrant claret to roll down his gullet in the most scientific fashion, and then, with what he called a bow, ...

— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)

... the body also has a skin, as have all its organs. The interior of the head, the throat, the gullet, the lungs, the stomach, and all the intestines, are lined with a skin. This is called the mucous membrane, because it is constantly secreting from the blood a slimy substance called mucus. When it accumulates ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

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