Glut (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.]
1.
To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at widest to glut him.
Shak.
2.
To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
Dryden.
The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
C. Kingsley.
To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
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Glut, v. i.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
Like three horses that have broken fence,
And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.
Tennyson.
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Glut, n.
1.
That which is swallowed.
Milton
2.
Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.
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A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
Macaulay.
3.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
4. (a)
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
[Prov. Eng.] (b) Mining
A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. Raymond.
(c) Bricklaying
A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. Knight.
(d)
Arch. An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.
(e)
A block used for a fulcrum.
5. Zool.
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
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