See Also: gullet(medicine)
gullet(dictionary)
gullet(dictionary)

magister (iou) and gullet (medicine)


magister (iou)



magister noun. Also Magister. LME.
[Latin: see MASTER noun1.]
Chiefly Hist. Used as a title of respect preceding the name of a man of academic rank; master.

gullet (medicine)


gullet


1. <anatomy> The tube by which Food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the oesophagus.

2. Something shaped like the Food passage, or performing similar functions; as: A channel for water.

<engineering> A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.

A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

Origin: OE. Golet, OF. Goulet, dim. Of gole, goule, throat, F. Gueule, L. Gula; perh. Akin to Skr. Gula, G. Kenle; cf. F. Goulet the neck of a bottle, goulotte channel gutter. Cf. Gules, Gully.

Source: Websters Dictionary