gullet

[ 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.
6. a concavity between two sawteeth, joining them at their bases.

verb (used with object)

1. to form a concavity at the base of (a sawtooth).

gullet

/ ˈɡʌlɪt /

noun

1. a less formal name for the oesophagus oesophageal
2. the throat or pharynx
3. mining quarrying a preliminary cut in excavating, wide enough to take the vehicle that removes the earth

Word History and Origins

Origin of gullet¹

1350–1400; Middle English golet < Old French goulet ≪ Latin gula throat; -et

Word History and Origins

Origin of gullet¹

C14: from Old French goulet, diminutive of goule throat, from Latin gula throat

Example Sentences

Visitors slid down the pole in “The Fire Cat,” slithered into the gullet of the boa constrictor in “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and lounged in a faux bubble bath in “Harry the Dirty Dog.”

From New York Times

The Pasco delivery station is not a same-day delivery site, but Gullet said it is meant to decrease delivery times for local shoppers.

From Seattle Times

That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.

From New York Times

Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.

From BBC

Once those creatures made landfall, “they needed something to take the place of water” to draw prey into their gullet—and air is not dense enough.

From Science Magazine