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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Gut

Gŭt, n.

noun

n. [L. Ger. küt, küte, N. H. Ger. kuttel, M. H. Ger. kutel, kutele, allied to Goth. qvithus, belly, womb; O. H. Ger. quiti, Icel. qvidhr, A-S. cwidh, womb.]

Sense 1. The intestinal canal of an animal.

Sense 2. The whole mass formed by the natural convolutions of the intestine in the abdomen.

Sense 3. Gluttony; love of gormandizing. [Low.]

Sense 4. The substance made by pulling in two a silk-worm, when ready to spin its cocoon, and drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as part of a fish-line. Tomlinson.

Gŭt, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. GUTTED; p. pr. & vb. n. GUTTING.] [L. Ger. küten. See supra.]

Sense 1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

Sense 2. To plunder of contents; to destroy the interior of; as, the mob gutted the house.

Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. Addison.