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Thesaurus: glut

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

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  1. v. t. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
  2. v. t. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
  3. v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  4. n. That which is swallowed.
  5. n. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.
  6. n. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  7. n. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  8. n. A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
  9. n. A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  10. n. An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.
  11. n. A block used for a fulcrum.
  12. n. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.