(cooking, biochemistry) The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.
(geology) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc.
(obsolete) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").
(rare) Any gluey, sticky substance.
goulet
guglet
gullet
gullet
noun
(cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
A channel for water.
A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
The throat or esophagus.
The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
gurlet
gurlet
noun
A pickaxe with one sharp point and one cutting edge.
guttle
guttle
noun
(obsolete, rare) Something which is eaten voraciously.
An act of swallowing voraciously.
One who eats voraciously; a glutton.
verb
(intransitive) To eat voraciously; to gorge.
(intransitive, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle.
(transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
(transitive, Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.
tegula
tegula
noun
(archaeology) A flat Roman roof tile with raised edges, joined together by an imbrex.
(entomology) A small sclerite situated above the base of the costal vein in the wings of various insects, and attached to the anterolateral portion of the mesonotum.
