gullet

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/ / /ˈɡʌl.ət/

Etymology: From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

The throat or esophagus.
“Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.”
The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
A channel for water.
A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.

Etymology: From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

To make grooves or indentations.
“The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted.”