Definition of "glut"

glut

/ɡlʌt/

noun
plural gluts
1. An excess, too much.
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  A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
  2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎
  “The glut 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.
  2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired‎
2. That which is swallowed.
  Quotations
  And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
  1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 588–589
3. Something that fills up an opening.
4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
5. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
6. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
7. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
8. A block used for a fulcrum.
9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
10. (Britain, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
  Quotations
  Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
  2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal‎
verb
third-person singular simple present gluts, present participle glutting, simple past and past participle glutted
1. (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
  Quotations
  Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwordsThat thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene iii
  [T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
  1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “Preface”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, page ix
2. (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
3. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  Quotations
  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, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]
  1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 42

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