gullet

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈɡʌl.ɪt/|/ˈɡʌl.ət/    /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/|/ˈɡʌl.ət/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The throat or esophagus.
    — Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.
  2. The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
  3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
  4. A channel for water.
  5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
  6. The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
动词 v.
  1. To make grooves or indentations.
    — The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted.

词形变化

gullets plural gullets present,singular,third-person gulleting participle,present gulleted participle,past gulleted past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.
词源 2
From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.
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