glut
noun
- excess supply
verb
- fill beyond capacity
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɡlʌt/ / [ɡlʊt] / /ɡlɐt/
noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).
- An excess, too much.
“a glut of the market”
“A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.”
- That which is swallowed.
“And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]”
- Something that fills up an opening.
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
“The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.”
- A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- Five goals scored by one player in a game.
“Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.”
verb
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).
- To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
“to glut one's appetite”
“Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.”
- To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
“And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]”