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▪ I. † ˈgutting, n. Obs.
[? f. Göttingen, name of a town in Hanover.]
Some kind of canvas.
1640in Entick London II. 167 Gutting and spruce canvas drillinges pack. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 135 Packing Canvass, Guttings, Spruce, Elbing, or Queenborough Canvass.
▪ II. gutting, vbl. n.|ˈgʌtɪŋ|
[f. gut v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. gut.
1. The eviscerating of fish. Also attrib., as gutting-board, gutting-house, gutting-knife.
1615E. S. Brit. Buss in Arb. Garner III. 642 Six Gutting knives, at fourpence..0 2 0. 1736J. Lewis Isle Tenet 34 The Gutting-Knife. 1780Young Tour Irel. I. 231 Over the gutting-house is a hoop store. 1832H. Martineau Weal & Woe i. 2 Girls were employed in gutting. 1842J. Wilson Voy. Scotl. II. 161 They [women] never appear except around the gutting board in otherwise than rather trim array.
b. concr. What is removed from a fish in the process of evisceration.
1899Blackw. Mag. Feb. 336/1 The peelings and guttings, the very offal and scour of the broth are flung further.
2. The clearing out of the contents of a building.
1690Dryden Don Sebastian iv. iii, Your breaking open and gutting of houses. 1809Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) IV. 471, I shall be very much obliged to you if you will let me know any cause that may have come to your knowledge for the desertion by its inhabitants, and plunder, even to gutting, of Cardigos.
fig.1891Times 13 Oct. 8/2 The gutting of the treasury of its net profits in order to pay and to parade an enormous dividend.
†3. Guzzling; gormandizing. Obs.
1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 316 Heer the Rejoynder..accuseth him of making it a Guttide; As if no Civill day of rejoycing could be without Gutting. |