To swallow; especially, to swallow greedily.
To fill to the extent of capacity; feast or delight to satiety; sate; gorge: as, to glut the appetite.
To saturate.
To feast to satiety; fill one's self to cloying.
To choke or partially fill up, as an enginecylinder or condenser-tube by a carbonaceous deposit from inferior oils used in lubrication.
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A block, usually of bronze, in one face of which is a recess to receive the upset end of the valve- rod in a knuckle-joint. The glut is tightened by a wedge and screw, or by a key.
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A glutton.
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A swallowing; that which has been swallowed.
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More of something than is desired; a super-abundance; so much as to cause displeasure or satiety, etc.; specifically, in com., an over-supply of any commodity in the market; a supply above the demand.
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The state of being glutted; a choking up by excess; an engorgement.
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A thick wooden wedge used for splitting blocks.
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Nautical: A piece of wood employed as a fulcrum in order to obtain a better lever-power in raising any body, or a piece of wood inserted beneath the thing to be raised in order to prevent its recoil when freshening the nip of the lever.
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A becket or thimble fixed on the after side of a topsail or course, near the head, to which the bunt-jigger is hooked to assist in furling the sail.—
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In brickmaking: A brick or block of small size, used to complete a course.
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A crude or green pressed brick. C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. (69.—
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The broad-nosed eel, Anguilla latirostris.
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The offal or refuse of fish.