What is "gullet"

Usage examples of "gullet".

Dengar had discovered him, halfdigested by the gullet of the Sarlacc, lying in the sunsbaked wasteland, Fett had had enough remaining strength to speak, but not to protect himself.

The pains were an hour apart to begin with, then every fifteen minutes or so and every ten and so forth until at last it was just one long unbearable century or so of anguish while the thing that seemed to fill me from gullet to goolies, a thing with sharp hooves and needles like a porcupine, was being pried out by some invisible force using a battering ram and a fireplace poker.

Sometimes he was drawing her in an agony from the swallowing gullet of a quicksand, which held her fast, and swallowed at her all the time that he fought to rescue her from its jawless throat.

The forked tongue of the Serpent was still a thing of crumbling smoke in a dark and yawning gullet that was but shadow filling the end of the room where men reeled and fenced and thrust and fell, as the blue light rose around the king, growing deeper and darker until it seemed like the night sky studded with stars.

I can hack her fucking ears off and ram this knife in her rucking gullet!

Here, when a boy, I have passed in fear and trembling, as the bones of the dead clattered in the wind as it whistled down the Gullet or sighed and sobbed round the Swineyard above.

Castlemereton, as being near to the haunts of some of the stags in the Gullet Pass and about the Swineyard Hill, and where, after a deer had been killed, it could be flayed and dressed.

Gullet Pass is situated between the great camp of Midsummer Hill and the hill of the Swineyards, which Gilbert de Clare granted to the dwellers around Ledbury whereon to pasture their swine, and all around the camp there have grown up dense thickets, which form excellent shelter for deer or wild boar, although tradition says that a British town once clustered around the base of these hills.

So, within ten minutes at the most of those irons being unlocked, I want this ship tacking down the Gullet under topsails.

But, except for scarcity of fish, the scene is very little altered, and one is a boy again, in heart, beneath the elms of Yair, or by the Gullets at Ashiesteil.

It has its roots there in the antrum and it has grown upwards, under the cheekbone, into the eye socket, and downwards into the gullet.

As it poured down his gullet he felt it scouring him, reducing the untidy tangle of his insides to a minimalist shell.

This, as far as we could judge from the accounts of foresters, was somewhere in the Gullet dingle among a thicket of hollies above the Dead Oaks, and where tradition says Sire John Oldcastle lay hid during three days when our house at Birtsmereton was searched by the bloodhounds of the Archbishop Arundel, and even our secret room in the pannelled chamber was considered to be unsafe.

With his gullet spackled by damp oats and mushed peanuts, he was left to pant like a pleuritic mandrill.

One of his hands was under her skirts, the other was repeatedly tossing schnaps down his gullet, and his one eye was rapidly getting red, while he mumbled things she could not possibly comprehend.