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# gullet

«gullet» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The tube that food goes down from the mouth to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a gullet, gullets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The tube that food goes down from the mouth to the stomach; the oesophagus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#m1)

2) The throat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah the gullet is the body part made by the letter Tzaddi, linked with taste, with Aquarius and with the month Shevat. Interpretation: The book ties each letter to a sense, a month, a sign of the zodiac and an organ. This shows its idea that the world, time and the body share one pattern. In the primary lessons: A science and story word. In science, food goes down the gullet (oesophagus) by muscle squeezes. In Kipling's Just So Story «How the Whale got his Throat», the sailor fixes a grating in the Whale's throat, so after that the Whale can only swallow very small fish; the story is a made-up explanation, not real science.

### examples

- He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned it, combined and formed with it Aquarius in the Year, and the gullet in Man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x1)
- He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned, combined, and formed Aquarius in the world, Sebat in the year, and the gullet in man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x2)
- The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet [39] or esophagus, stomach and milt. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x3)
- Food passes down the gullet to the stomach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x4)
- A fishbone got stuck in his gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x5)
- The pelican swallowed the fish whole down its gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x6)
- The Whale's throat, or gullet, was blocked by a grating in Kipling's story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x7)
- The heron gulped the frog into its gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x8)
- Muscles in the gullet push food down even if you are upside down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x9)
- In her youth she had once swallowed a hook, and still swam patiently about with it in her gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x10)

### note

Countable. The science word is «oesophagus» (UK) or «esophagus» (US). Do not confuse the gullet (food pipe) with the windpipe (trachea, for air). Real whales: baleen whales do have small throats, but not because of any grating — Kipling made that up.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gullet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.