glut

Meanings

Noun

• An excess, too much.
• That which is swallowed.
• Something that fills up an opening.
• A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
• 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 (species)), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

Verb

• To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
• To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Origin

• From Middle English glotien, from Old French gloter, glotir (compare French engloutir ("to devour"), glouton), from Latin gluttio ("I swallow"). Akin to Russian глотать.