subs. (old: now recognised).—The throat. For synonyms, see GUTTER-ALLEY.
1383. CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales, 12,477 [quoted in Encyclopædic Dictionary].
| Out of the harde bones, knocken they | |
| The mary; for they causten nought away | |
| That may go through the GULLET soft and sote. |
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. GULLET. A Derisory Term for the Throat, from Gula.
1836. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, ch. 15. So he puts a pistol to his mouth, and he fires it down his GULLET.
1893. National Observer, x. 168. Through sympathetic GULLETS.
