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How to pronounce gullet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms esophagus, gorge, oesophagus
Type of musculature, muscle system, muscular structure, passage, passageway

Examples of gullet

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The procedure is to divide the thickened muscles at the lower end of the gullet.
From the dailymail.co.uk
This involves wrapping part of the stomach around the lower part of the gullet.
From the sciencedaily.com
He delivered a fastball right down the gullet of the firm's board of directors.
From the suntimes.com
How about pouring that in a 529 college savings plan instead of down your gullet?
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Out there in the ocean, the fish felt its meal being yanked back up its gullet.
From the washingtonpost.com
When the game was on the line, the other teams rammed it down Tampa Bay's gullet.
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Since he fills his gullet with lots of vegetables anyway, the transition was easy.
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If one can judge a year by what one ate, then 2010 was a banner year for my gullet.
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If your food tastes skew broad, this event will appeal to your hungry gullet.
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More examples
  • Esophagus: the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
  • The throat or esophagus; The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested; The space between teeth of a saw blade
  • (Gullets) Check the steel core of the blade for cracks that may have propagated from the gullets. Cracks indicate extreme fatigue failure and if sawing continues, catastrophic failure will occur.
  • (Gullets) The space in between the diamond segments which helps remove the slurry and dissipate some of the heat caused by high friction during the cut. Hard materials will require diamond blades with narrow gullets while soft abrasives will perform better with wider gullets.
  • The space between a saw's teeth, where the saw dust is carried out. It is an equilateral triangle, just like the file that shapes the teeth.
  • The cut out area in front of saw blade teeth. This cut out helps carry chips and dust out of the kerf as well as introducing air to the cut to assist in controlling temperatures of the blade and wood.
  • The throat within the curved area between two saw band teeth.
  • The areas between the teeth on a saw blade. Provides a temporary place for removed material.
  • The area forward of the impeller known as the intake housing to channel water toward the impeller via vacuum.