Glut
Glut (glut) , transitive verb
[Old English glotten, from Old French glotir, gloutir, Latin glutire, gluttire; compare Greek {not transcribed} to eat, Sanskrit gar. Compare Gluttion, Englut.]
1.
To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at widest to glut him.
2.
To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
Collocations (1)
To glut the market , to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
Glut , intransitive verb
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
Like three horses that have broken fence,
And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.
Glut , noun
1.
That which is swallowed. — Milton
2.
Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.
A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
3.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
4.
(a) (Mining) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
(b)
(Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
(c)
(Mining) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
(d)
(Mining) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
(e)
(Mining) A block used for a fulcrum. [Provincial English] — Raymond
5.
(Zoology) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.