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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



... the head when the larva lurks in its hiding place, or be suddenly darted out so as to secure any unwary small insect that may pass close enough for capture. Dragon-fly larvae walk, and also swim by movements of the abdomen or by expelling a jet of water from the hind-gut. The walls of this terminal region of the intestine have areas lined with delicate cuticle and traversed by numerous air-tubes, so that gaseous exchange can take place between the air in the tubes and that dissolved in the water. The larvae of the larger and heavier dragon-flies (Libellulidae ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter
... Redmond's gut "leader" had barely sunk below the surface when he felt the thrilling, jarring strike of an unmistakably heavy fish. The tried, splendid "green-heart" rod he was using described a pulsating arc under the strain. He turned to Yorke gleefully. ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... its back, and with a strong pointed knife cut round the under shell (which is the callipee),—there are joints at each end, which must be carefully found,—gently separating it from the callipash (which is the upper shell); be careful that in cutting out the gut you do not break the gall. When the callipee and the callipash are perfectly separated, take out that part of the gut that leads from the throat; that with the hearts put into a basin of water by themselves, the other interior part put away. Take the callipee, and ...
— A Poetical Cook-Book • Maria J. Moss
... off to their fishing. Godfrey asked them to take him with them, leaving Luka to see to the repairs of the boat. The fishing implements were of the roughest kind. The hooks were formed of fish bones, bound together by fine gut; the lines were twisted strips of skin, strong gut attaching the hook to these lines; the bait was small pieces of fat, varied by strips of fish with the skin on them. Clumsy as the appliances were, ...
— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty
... Gibraltar. That night thirteen sail of the transports, under charge of two frigates, slipped out and made their way to Minorca, then a British possession. The British ships of war continued under way, cruising in the Bay and Gut ...
— The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence • A. T. Mahan


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