glut

plural gluts

1. An excess, too much.

   a glut of the market

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   A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

   Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.

   2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport

   “The glut is getting bigger every day, and now you’re starting to have to compete more on price,” says Jim Mikesell, Dog Star’s CEO. The company is looking into other uses for its crop.

   2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired

   As the glut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentially barren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.

   2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36

   Synonyms: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus · Antonyms: lack, shortage

2. That which is swallowed.

   And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]

   1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 588–589

3. Something that fills up an opening.

   Synonyms: clog

4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

   The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.

   2013, Nicholas R. Bell, A Measure of the Earth, page 39

5. businessA piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
6. bricklayingA bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
7. architectureAn arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
8. A block used for a fulcrum.
9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
10. UKball gamesFive goals scored by one player in a game.

    Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.

    2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal

present singular third person gluts · participle present glutting · participle past glutted · past glutted

1. transitiveTo fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.

   to glut one's appetite

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   Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii

   [T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.

   1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “Preface”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page ix

2. transitiveeconomicsTo provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
3. intransitiveTo eat gluttonously or to satiety.

   And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]

   1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 42