▪ I. ‖ guttur
(ˈgʌtə(r))
Also 6 gutter.
[L. = throat.]
The throat; used rarely in technical applications. Also attrib., in † guttur-neck.
| 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 3 The rootes of the femall ferne taken wyth honye..dryue brode wormes oute of the gutter. 1649 Lovelace Poems 53 [To an Ostrich.] Snakes through thy guttur-neck hisse all the day, Then on thy Iron Messe at supper feed'st. 1864 Max Müller Sci. Lang. Ser. ii. 151 The letters which we commonly call gutturals, k, g, have nothing to do with the guttur, but with the root of the tongue and the soft palate. 1872 Coues Key N. Amer. Birds (1884) 96 The front of the neck has been needlessly subdivided,..Guttur is a term sometimes used to include gula and jugulum together; it is simply equivalent to ‘throat’, as just defined. |
▪ II. guttur
obs. form of gutter.