Gŭl'let, n.

n. [Fr. goulet, goulette, goulot, goulotte, gullet, water-channel, Pr. golet, gorge, defile, goleta, gullet, channel, from Lat. gula, gullet, throat.]

1. (Anat.) The passage in the neck of an animal by which food and liquor are taken into the stomach; the esophagus.
2. Something shaped like the food-passage, or performing similar functions; as, (a.) A channel for water. Heylin. (b.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations of sufficient width for the passage of earth-wagons. (c.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw-blades.