Gut
Gut , noun
[Old English gut, got, Anglo-Saxon gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to geótan 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.
Collocations (1)
Blind gut , See Caecum, n. (b).
Gut , transitive verb
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 house.
Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper
name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.