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gullet

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gullet
1. a less formal name for the oesophagus
2. the throat or pharynx

gullet [′gəl·ət]
(anatomy)
(invertebrate zoology)
A canal between the cytostome and reservoir that functions in food intake in ciliates.


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So the Sheriff sat him down again, with the best face he could assume, and soon the cook's viands were disappearing down his gullet as rapidly as the next man's.
He concluded a long harangue by taking off his funnel-cap, inserting the tube into my gullet, and thus deluging me with an ocean of Kirschenwässer, which he poured, in a continuous flood, from one of the long necked bottles that stood him instead of an arm.
(I fear the part played by the vultures on that occasion would be too painful for art to represent, those birds being disadvantageously naked about the gullet, and apparently without rites and ceremonies.
 
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