gullet

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/

The English word “gullet” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

The throat or esophagus.
The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
A channel for water.
A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “gullet” there

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.