Definitions for the word "glut" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
That which is swallowed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A block used for a fulcrum.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v.
(-tt-) 1 feed (a person, one''s stomach, etc.) Or indulge (a desire etc.) To the full; satiate. 2 fill to excess. 3 overstock (a market). n. 1 supply exceeding demand. 2 full indulgence; surfeit. [french gloutir swallow: related to *glutton]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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