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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gizzard \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the
cooked entrails of poultry. Cf {Gigerium}.]
1. (Anat.) The second or true, muscular stomach of birds, in
which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened
in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the
esophagus; the gigerium.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
a A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate
animals.
b A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or
teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
{Gizzard shad} (Zo["o]l.), an American herring ({Dorosoma
cepedianum}) resembling the shad, but of little value.
{To fret the gizzard}, to harass; to vex one's self to
worry. [Low] --Hudibras.
{To stick in one's gizzard}, to be difficult of digestion; to
be offensive. [Low]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
gizzard
n : thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and
reptiles for grinding food [syn: {ventriculus}, {gastric
mill}]
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