2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the
enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a
sheep, used for various purposes. See {Catgut}.
4. 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.
{Blind gut}. See {C[AE]cum}, n.
(b) .
2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior
or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.
Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a
proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he
pleased. --Addison.