English Dictionary: gut | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gut \Gut\, n. [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to ge[a2]tan to pour. See {FOUND} to cast.] 1. A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso. 2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails. 3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See {Catgut}. 4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line. {Blind gut}. See {C[92]cum}, n. (b) . | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gutting}.] 1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate. 2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. --Addison. |