Gullet

Word GULLET
Character 6
Hyphenation gul let
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Gullet"

What do we mean by gullet?

The esophagus. noun

The throat. noun

An invagination into the cytoplasm of certain ciliates, used for food intake. noun

To cut or make gullets in: as, to gullet a saw.

The passage in the neck of an animal by which food and drink pass from the mouth to the stomach; the throat; technically, in anatomy, the esophagus. noun

Something resembling the throat in shape, position, or functions. noun

A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width to admit of the passage of wagons. noun

A peculiar concave cut in the teeth of some saw-blades. See gullet-saw. noun

A gore, as in a skirt. noun

Part of a hood or cowl. noun

A piece of armor for the throat or upper part of the body. noun

The lower end of a horse-collar about which pass the choke-strap and breast-strap. noun

The arch of a bridge. noun

A parcel or lot. noun

A fish, the pike. noun

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus. noun

Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions. noun

A channel for water. noun

A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons. noun

A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades. noun

The throat or esophagus.

The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.

The space between the teeth of a saw blade.

A channel for water.

A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.

The wide room under the pommel of a saddle, the hollow over the withers.

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The word "gullet" in example sentences

_Innocent stricture_; _Malignant stricture, including cancer at the junction of pharynx and gullet and cancer at the lower end of the gullet_. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

_Impaction of foreign bodies_; _Compression of the gullet from without_; _Spasm of the muscular coat_; _Cardiospasm_; _Paralysis of the gullet_; _Diverticula_ or _pouches of the gullet_; ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

When the food has been thoroughly moistened and crushed in the mouth and rolled into a lump, or bolus, at the back of the tongue, it is started down the elevator shaft which we call the gullet, or esophagus. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

The best way of getting pulses down my gullet is with dhal, in which split peas are completely melted, boiled with curry powder, garlic, chili, and then topped off with cumin seeds and garlic fried to a crisp which both add that magical aroma. ❋ Homesick Texan (2008)

They use the feathers to line their crops, thus preventing irritaion of the gullet from the German tourist bones. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What sticks in the gullet is that we get the blame when they havn’t got the balls to run with a job at court. on July 22, 2009 at 9: 17 pm Wig and Gown ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

If women are targets or "pie" or "gullet" -- this writer is a wad of wankery, tacky ejaculate, unwittingly revealing what makes him screech and wee wee. ❋ Carol Muske-Dukes (2011)

To have this quasi-feudal law in the 21 century is an outrage, but what sticks in the gullet is the contempt the sneering Beeboids have for us while they take our money. stanley Jerusalem ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paralysis of the muscular fibres of the gullet is a very common cause of choking in swine. ❋ Charles James Korinek (N/A)

This budding off of the lungs from the gullet is the reason why the air we breathe and the food we swallow go down the same passage. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

Over the gullet is a double brain (acroganglion, g). ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

That rising sensation in your gullet is a total lack of surprise. ❋ Hadley Freeman (2011)

For all you Christians shoving a 5 lb. cheese steak down your gullet, that is a deadly sin. ❋ Gardengirl (2010)

Barrett's oesophagus (Barrett's) is an abnormal lining of the oesophagus (otherwise known as the gullet), which occurs in patients with a long history of heartburn and reflux (acid and bile moving into the gullet). ❋ Unknown (2008)

This new evidence suggests that Cookie Monster is wholly synthetic, lacking teeth, a gullet and a digestive tract, which would make it impossible for him to consume cookies or any kind of organic matter. ❋ Pablo Andreu (2011)

He got a gaping, tentacled pit of barbed Sarlacc gullet tattooed on his foot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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