Gut

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gutted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Gutting}.]
     1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
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     2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior


        or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house.
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              Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a
              proper
              name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.
                                                    --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gut \Gut\, n. [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel,
     and akin to ge['o]tan to pour. See {FOUND} to cast.]
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     1. A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
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     2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the
        enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
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     3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a
        sheep, used for various purposes. See {Catgut}.
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     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.
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     {Blind gut}. See {Caecum}, n.
        (b) .
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gut
       n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the
            anus [syn: {intestine}, {bowel}]
       2: a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in
          surgery [syn: {catgut}]
       v 1: empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building"
       2: remove the guts of; "gut the sheep"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  241 Moby Thesaurus words for "gut":
     ab ovo, abdomen, abomasum, affectional, affective, arm, armlet,
     audacity, automatic, backbone, balls, basal, basic, bay,
     bay window, bayou, beerbelly, belly, belt, bight, boca, boldness,
     bottle, bowel, bowels, bravery, breadbasket, bring to ruin, casual,
     clean, clean out, condemn, confound, constituent, constitutive,
     consume, corporation, courage, cove, craw, creek, crop, damn,
     daring, dauntlessness, deal destruction, decimate, deep-seated,
     demonstrative, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy,
     determination, devastate, devour, diaphragm, disembowel, dissolve,
     draw, dress, dynamism, elemental, elementary, embonpoint,
     emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive,
     empty, endurance, engorge, entrails, essential, estuary, euripus,
     eviscerate, feeling, first stomach, fjord, fleece, forage, foray,
     forcefulness, freeboot, frith, fundamental, gizzard, glandular,
     gobble, gobble up, grit, gulf, gullet, gumption, gut with fire,
     guts, gutsiness, harbor, havoc, heart, heartfelt,
     honeycomb stomach, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised,
     inadvertent, incinerate, indeliberate, inlet, innards, insides,
     instinctive, instinctual, integrity, interior, internal, internals,
     intestinal fortitude, intestines, intimate, intuitive, involuntary,
     inwards, kishkes, kyle, lay in ruins, lay waste, loch, loot,
     manyplies, maraud, material, maw, mettle, midriff, mouth, moxie,
     narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nerve, of soul,
     of the essence, offal, omasum, original, overdemonstrative, paunch,
     pillage, pluck, plunder, pot, potbelly, potgut, prey on, primal,
     primary, primitive, psalterium, pusgut, radical, raid, ransack,
     ravage, raven, ravish, reach, reflex, reflexive, reive, rennet bag,
     resolution, reticulum, rifle, road, roads, roadstead, ruin,
     ruinate, rumen, sack, sand, second stomach, shipwreck, snap,
     soulful, sound, spare tire, spirit, spoil, spoliate, spontaneous,
     spunk, stamina, stomach, strait, straits, strip, stuffing,
     substantial, substantive, swagbelly, swallow up, sweep,
     third stomach, throw into disorder, tripes, tum-tum, tummy,
     unadvised, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, undeliberate,
     undeliberated, underbelly, underlying, undesigned, unintended,
     unintentional, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane,
     unmeditated, unpremeditated, unstudied, unwilled, upheave,
     vandalize, vaporize, venter, ventripotence, viscera, visceral,
     vitals, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck