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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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"Gullet" Quotes from Famous Books

... opening my eyes, "water, cold water, quick, a deluge. I drank over long last night, and now my gullet scorches." ...

— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London

... pillar-stone chanced to be under Mac cecht's feet on the floor of the Hostel. He hurls it at the man who had Conaire's head and drove it through his spine, so that his back broke. After this Mac cecht beheads him. Mac cecht then spilt the cup of water into Conaire's gullet and neck. Then said Conaire's head, after the water had been put into its neck ...

— The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And Notes • Various

... scheme is an oblique, subterranean attack on heathenism; the theory being that with the jam of secular education, leading to a University degree, the pill of moral or religious instruction may he coaxed down the heathen gullet." ...

— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling

... that deals out Such blows in stormy vengeance! Who he was My teacher next inquir'd, and thus in few He answer'd: "Vanni Fucci am I call'd, Not long since rained down from Tuscany To this dire gullet. Me the beastial life And not the human pleas'd, mule that I was, Who in Pistoia ...

— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri

... orange. "All the pips grow on the outside. What a convenient arrangement for a person in a hurry! I have seen many a black fellow with a mouth big enough to take in a whole one, though such a bolus would be apt to stick in his gullet if he were to swallow one before putting his ...

— The Three Lieutenants • W.H.G. Kingston

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