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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gut \Gut\, n. [OE. gut, got AS gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to ge['o]tan to pour. See {FOUND} to cast.] 1. A narrow passage of water; as the Gut of Canso. 2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails. 3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See {Catgut}. 4. 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 {C[AE]cum}, n. b . From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gutted}; p. pr & vb n. {Gutting}.] 1. To take out the bowels from to eviscerate. 2. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gut n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: {intestine}, {bowel}] 2: a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery [syn: {catgut}] v 1: empty completely; destroy the inside of "Gut the building" 2: remove the guts of "gut the sheep"
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