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# gullet

noun (a gullet, gullets)

«gullet» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The tube that food goes down from the mouth to the stomach; the oesophagus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#m1)
2. The throat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x1)
- A fishbone got stuck in his gullet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x2)
- The pelican swallowed the fish whole down its gullet. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/#x4)
- The heron gulped the frog into its gullet. [tree →](https://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://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://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.

## In 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.

### 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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/#x3)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gullet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gullet/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gullet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gullet.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «gullet» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gullet/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gullet» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/gullet.html) on Mova free.