Gut1. (n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
2. (n.) An intestine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
3. (n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
4. (n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
5. (v. t.) To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
6. (v. t.) To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.
Thesaurus Entries
ab ovo, abdomen, abomasum, affectional, affective, arm, armlet, audacity, automatic, backbone, balls, basal, basic, bay, bay window, bayou, beerbelly, belly, belt, bight, boca, boldness, bottle, bowel, bowels, bravery, breadbasket, bring to ruin, casual, clean, clean out, condemn, confound, constituent, constitutive, consume, corporation, courage, cove, craw, creek, crop, damn, daring, dauntlessness, deal destruction, decimate, deep-seated, demonstrative, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, determination, devastate, devour, diaphragm, disembowel, dissolve, draw, dress, dynamism, elemental, elementary, embonpoint, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive, empty, endurance, engorge, entrails, essential, estuary, euripus, eviscerate, feeling, first stomach, fjord, fleece, forage, foray, forcefulness, freeboot, frith, fundamental, gizzard, glandular, gobble, gobble up, grit, gulf, gullet, gumption, gut with fire, guts, gutsiness, harbor, havoc, heart, heartfelt, honeycomb stomach, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, inadvertent, incinerate, indeliberate, inlet, innards, insides, instinctive, instinctual, integrity, interior, internal, internals, intestinal fortitude, intestines, intimate, intuitive, involuntary, inwards, kishkes, kyle, lay in ruins, lay waste, loch, loot, manyplies, maraud, material, maw, mettle, midriff, mouth, moxie, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nerve, of soul, of the essence, offal, omasum, original, overdemonstrative, paunch, pillage, pluck, plunder, pot, potbelly, potgut, prey on, primal, primary, primitive, psalterium, pusgut, radical, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reach, reflex, reflexive, reive, rennet bag, resolution, reticulum, rifle, road, roads, roadstead, ruin, ruinate, rumen, sack, sand, second stomach, shipwreck, snap, soulful, sound, spare tire, spirit, spoil, spoliate, spontaneous, spunk, stamina, stomach, strait, straits, strip, stuffing, substantial, substantive, swagbelly, swallow up, sweep, third stomach, throw into disorder, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, unadvised, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, undeliberate, undeliberated, underbelly, underlying, undesigned, unintended, unintentional, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unstudied, unwilled, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, venter, ventripotence, viscera, visceral, vitals, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck