DEFINITION
GUT:
• (n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
• (n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the
enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
• (n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep,
used for various purposes. See Catgut.
• (n.) 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.
• (v. t.) To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
• (v. t.) To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior
or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.