gullet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the throat or esophagus, especially considered as the passage through which food is swallowed

   The bird gulped the berry down its gullet.

2. 2
   noun

   a channel or cavity resembling a throat, such as the space between the teeth of a saw blade

   Each gullet between the saw teeth carried chips away from the cut.

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, a diminutive of gole or goule, 'throat,' ultimately from Latin gula. The anatomical image was later extended to narrow channels and throatlike spaces.

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