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What is a gullet?

What is a gullet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The throat or esophagus.
  2. (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
  3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
  4. A channel for water.
  5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
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The barium solution shows up the stomach and gullet more clearly, and the process of digestion can be seen.
Contact may be with your skin, or with the lining of your lungs, mouth, gullet, stomach or intestine.
His throat fighting the gorge rising in his gullet, he slid off the bed and collapsed on the deck.
The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.
He died suddenly in Bradford Royal Infirmary from ulcers in his gullet, which links the throat to the stomach.
He slowed, drawing a draught of brown-red liquid in a weather-proof seal-skin flask, the fire-drink warmed across his thirsty gullet.

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