gizzard : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gizzard	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for gizzard
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gizzard n thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food Synonym(s): gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gizzard \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g[82]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. {Gigerium}.] 1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. {Gizzard shad} (Zo[94]l.), an American herring ({Dorosoma cepedianum}) resembling the shad, but of little value. {To fret the gizzard}, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] --Hudibras. {To stick in one's gizzard}, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]