gullet

plural gullets

1. The throat or esophagus.

   Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.

   2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: gorge

2. biologyThe cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.

   Synonyms: cytopharynx

3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
4. A channel for water.
5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
6. The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.

present singular third person gullets · participle present gulleting · participle past gulleted · past gulleted

1. To make grooves or indentations.

   The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted.

   1925, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan: Volume 29, page 234