Aglut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, inBBC Sport[1]:
Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goalglut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, inWired[2]:
“Theglut is getting bigger every day, and now you’re starting to have to compete more on price,” says Jim Mikesell, Dog Star’s CEO. The company is looking into other uses for its crop.
2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, inRAIL, number1005, page36:
As theglut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentiallybarren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.
That which is swallowed.
1667,John Milton, “Book VI”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines588–589:
And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilishglut,[…]
2013, Nicholas R. Bell,A Measure of the Earth, page39:
The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.
(mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.[3]
(bricklaying) Abat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.[4]
And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / Andglutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for“glut”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
Władysław Matlakowski (1892), “glut”, inSłownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 5
Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “glut”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, inPrace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page197
