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gul·let

[guhl-it]
noun
1.
the esophagus.
2.
the throat or pharynx.
3.
a channel for water.
4.
a gully or ravine.
5.
a preparatory cut in an excavation.
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6.
a concavity between two sawteeth, joining them at their bases.
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verb (used with object)
7.
to form a concavity at the base of (a sawtooth).

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English golet < Old French gouletLatin gula throat; see -et
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  • It was so cold down there, you couldn't shove a shell into the gullet of a piece of artillery or a missile into a silo.
  • Now's your chance to give us a bib and cram your greasy photos down our gullet.
  • If you drink it, it will corrode your gullet before it poisons you.
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gullet (ˈɡʌlɪt)
 
n
1.  a less formal name for the oesophagus Related: oesophageal
2.  the throat or pharynx
3.  mining, quarrying a preliminary cut in excavating, wide enough to take the vehicle that removes the earth
 
Related: oesophageal
 
[C14: from Old French goulet, diminutive of goule throat, from Latin gula throat]

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Word Origin & History

gullet
c.1300, from O.Fr. goulet, dim. of goule "throat, neck," from L. gula "throat," from PIE base *gel- "swallow" (cf. L. gluttire "to gulp down, devour," O.E. ceole "throat," O.C.S. glutu "gullet," O.Ir. gelim "I devour").
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gullet gul·let (gŭl'ĭt)
n.

  1. The esophagus.

  2. The throat.

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