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   Gut (?), n. [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to geótan 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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   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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