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Gut   /gət/   Listen
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



... fowl is opened there are prominent two curved portions of the gut. The state of these is examined in some cases before the planting of PADI, and sometimes before attempting to catch the soul of a sick man. If the parts are much curved, it is a good omen; if straight or but slightly curved, it ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall
... brought down more interesting game in the shape of the Styrian peasants, and in particular of his gillie, Joseph. This Joseph was much of a character; and his appreciations of Fleeming have a fine note of their own. The bringing up of the boys he deigned to approve of: "fast so gut wie ein Bauer," was his trenchant criticism. The attention and courtly respect with which Fleeming surrounded his wife was something of a puzzle to the philosophic gillie; he announced in the village that Mrs. Jenkin—die silberne Frau, as the folk had ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... allowed the abscess to drain and close, all would have been well. This, I assume, would have been the ending if the vigorous examination that was given the patient the day before the collapse had not prematurely ruptured the abscess both into the gut and into the subperitoneal region converting an appendicular abscess into ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.
... harder than ever from the eastward. Had we been close in with the land, this would not have signified; but before we could beat up again, a continuance of northerly and easterly gales drove us to the southward of the Gut of Gibraltar. When there, they left us in a dead calm, with our sails idly flapping against the masts, and rolling bulwarks under in the heavy swell they had caused on ...
— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston
... Slaves were passing among the guests, distributing small musical instruments of a single string. Upon each instrument were characters which indicated the pitch and length of its tone. The instruments were of skeel, the string of gut, and were shaped to fit the left forearm of the dancer, to which it was strapped. There was also a ring wound with gut which was worn between the first and second joints of the index finger of the right hand and which, when passed over the string of the instrument, elicited the single note ...
— The Chessmen of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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