gut
gut is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
- 2.One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
- 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).
- 4.To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abdomen
- abdominal
- arm
- armlet
- artesian
- backbone
- bay
- bayou
- belly
- belt
- bight
- bosom
- breast
- broad
- cave
- center
- circumscribe
- coeliac
- concavity
- contents
- continental
- cove
- covered
- creek
- dam
- dead
- deep
- dike
- ditch
- domestic
- dyke
- endemic
- entrails
- estuary
- family
- fiord
- firth
- fish
- frith
- gulf
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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