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# gullet

«gullet» in Mova's school 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/school/G/gullet/#m1)

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

### sense in the 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

- Food passes down the gullet to the stomach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x1)
- A fishbone got stuck in his gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x2)
- The pelican swallowed the fish whole down its gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x3)
- 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/school/G/gullet/#x4)
- The heron gulped the frog into its gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x5)
- Muscles in the gullet push food down even if you are upside down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x6)
- 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/school/G/gullet/#x7)

### 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/school/G/gullet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.