GUT

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

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. Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).

To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. Addison.