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Pronunciation : Gut
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to ge?tan to pour. See FOUND to cast.]
Definition : 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?cum, n. (b).
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Gut
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Gutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gutting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913