Word Direct Answers

What does "gut" mean?

Gut: An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

Additional senses

  1. 2.One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
  2. 3.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 CÆcum, n. (b).
  3. 4.To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
  4. 5.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.

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