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the Gut
b. As a local designation; e.g. the Gut of Canso, the Gut of Gibraltar; also, a street in Valletta, Malta. At Oxford and Cambridge: the Gut: a bend of the river in the racing-course.
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1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 113 They had orders to go directly for Port Royal Gut.
1746 Acct. French Settlem. N. Amer. 9 There are three ways of getting into this great river:..the third is thro' the Gut of Canseau.
1770 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 316 The Old Town Gut was so high as to wet us in crossing it.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §102 The seamen thought it not safe to go into the Gut that night,..that the entrance or exit from the Gut might be impracticable or dangerous.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. v. 160 We could not..get out of the Gut of Gibraltar.
1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I. xiv. 173 Pembroke had won the fours, very much in consequence of Worcester having gone round the flag, and on being made to row again, of fouling them in the gut.
1889 Christ's Coll. Mag. 77 The third night Queens' fell an easy prey in the Gut.
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 89 The Gut, a notorious street in Malta.
1970 ‘Zeno’ Grab iii. 25 Strait Street, Valetta, better known as the Gut, the centre of Malta's red light district.
1970 M. Butterworth Vanishing Act x. 108 Mosta dome and the Città Notabile, the trashy souvenir shops of Kingsway..and the honky tonk dives of the Gut.
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