gullet

Etymology

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

noun

1. The throat or esophagus.
   Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself. 2020-05-26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
2. (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
4. A channel for water.
5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
6. The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.