gluts

Noun

glut (plural gluts)

1. An excess, too much.
   • a glut of the market

   Synonyms:

   excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

   Antonyms:

   lack, shortage

2. That which is swallowed.
   • And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
3. Something that fills up an opening.

   Synonyms:

   clog

4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
   • 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.2013, Nicholas R. Bell, A Measure of the Earth, page 39
5. 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.

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