glut

Meanings

1. An excess, too much.
2. That which is swallowed.
3. Something that fills up an opening.
4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
5. A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
6. A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
7. 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. Five goals scored by one player in a game.

1. To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
2. To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
3. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).