Definition of swallow

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Swallet (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

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Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
Bank Swallow :: Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n..
Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
Witchuck :: Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight..
Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
Regurgitation :: Regurgitation (n.) The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) That which swallows; the gullet.
Fork-tailed :: Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.
Pouch :: Pouch (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
Wind-sucking :: Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4..
Gobbet :: Gobbet (v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap..
Gulch :: Gulch (v. t.) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
Ingulf :: Ingulf (v. t.) To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf..
Masticate :: Masticate (v. t.) To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food..
Rumination :: Rumination (n.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man..
Glut :: Glut (n.) That which is swallowed.
Ruminate :: Ruminate (v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.
Gormandize :: Gormandize (v. i. & t.) To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.
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