glut
nounEtymology
Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).
- derived from gluttiō<t:to swallow>
- derived from gloter//glotir//glotoiier<t:to eat greedily>
- inherited from glotien//glotten
Definitions
An excess, too much.
- a glut of the market
- A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
- Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
That which is swallowed.
- And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
Something that fills up an opening.
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A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.
A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
A block used for a fulcrum.
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe,…
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
Five goals scored by one player in a game.
- Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
To fill to capacity
To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- to glut one's appetite
- Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.
- [T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the…
To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for glut. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA