c1394 P. Pl. Crede 67 What glut of þo gomes may any good kachen, He will kepen it hymself.

a1400–50 Alexander 4552 Ane [of the gods] leris ȝow to be licherus..Ane, to be grindand gluttis & glorand dronkin.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 41 b Let him drinke a lytel smal biere or ale, so that he drinke not a great glut, but in a lytel quantite.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 223 Many of the Tartarres when the bodies lie fresshe bliedinge on the grounde, laye them downe alonge, and suck of y^e bloud a full gloute.

1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 31 Moving sands, which covered and buried heretofore at one glut the puissant army of King Cambyses.

c1785 John Thompson's Man 23 And for a continual Diet-Drink, take five great Gluts of the Decoction of Mother Wit three Times a Day.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 217 Should the horse have to undertake a longer journey..a stinted allowance of water before starting..is requisite, say to 10 gluts.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Glut, a drink. ‘Tyek a glut or twee an' ye'll be bettor.’

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 41 They [sc. the Shells] were by some Glut, Stop, or other means arrested in their Passage.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 113 He gathers in his tedious Course Ten Thousand Streams, and swelling as he flows, In Scythian Seas the Glut of Rivers throws.

1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1649) 38 To enseame your hawke, which is, to cleanse her from grease, fat, and glut.

1614 S. Latham Falconry i. ii. 7 She gathers noe glut to decay her stomacke.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 181 Gluts. Muff. Glottides..They feed in the fennes upon red seedes, bents and wormes.

1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 437 Glut, a large wooden wedge.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gluts, two wedges used in tempering the plough. The end of the beam being moveable in the stilt into which it was inserted, these wedges were anciently employed in raising or depressing it.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Glut, a piece of wood inserted as a fulcrum to get a better lever-power on any thing, or inserted beneath the thing prized in order to prevent its recoil when freshening the nip of the lever.

1852 Newcastle Mining Gloss. (Northumbld. Gloss.) Glut, a piece of wood to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 140 Wood pipes which produce a tremulous tone are remedied by a small wooden glut being driven into the wedge of the mouth.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding viii. 145 The edges which are to be welded are introduced into the grooves of an H-shaped piece of iron, which the patentee calls a ‘glut’.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Glut, a small brick or block introduced into a course to complete it.

1889 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks (ed. 2) 285 The plunger is then at or about its lowest point, and a ‘glut’, or green brick is placed in the mould [etc.].

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 107 Glut, a piece of canvas sewed into the centre of a sail, near the head. It has an eyelet-hole in the middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go through.

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Glut, a gun-metal block having a face hollowed out to fit against the bossed-up end of the valve-rod in a knuckle joint, and by which the wear is constantly being taken up, the glut being tightened by a wedge and screw, or by a cottar.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 568/2 I glut with meate, Je engloutte. I glut one with to moche aboundance of any thynge, je assouuys. There is no carnall pleasure but a man may be glutted in it.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement I glut with slepe, je assopis.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11777 There is no greuaunce so grete vndur god one, As the glemyng of gold, þat glottes þere hertis.

1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 286 When the Gospell is diligently and daily preached, many being glutted therwith begin to loth it.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. ix. 69 The ouer busie and too speedy returne of one maner of tune, [doth] too much annoy & as it were glut the eare.

1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie viii. 22 Francke fedde with rest breeds imperfection and glots the stomack.

1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 103 This life hath many commodities: so it is that wee may be full gorged, satiated, and glutted with them.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. i. 241 He leaveth his Prince alwayes with an appetite, and never gluts him with his company.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 435 I found The fickle ear soon glutted with the sound.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 237 Swallowing their blood at large draughts, and seeming rather glutted than satiated with its abundance.

1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) ix. 84 Some straggling Cossacks from the town..glutted, but not sated, with blood.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. xv. 304 The ear is cloyed and glutted with warbled ecstasies or agonies.

1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy vii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 169 But geve yt not so much that thou hyt glut.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 106 The aboundaunce of the light Sande (wherewith the Sea hath glutted the hauen).

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 46 in Jewell House Ground..which..hath been glutted with salt water.

1680 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) ii. 126 Sal Tartari dulcify'd by Distilling from it Spirit of Wine till the Salt be sufficiently glutted with its Sulphur.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening iv. 60 Ground is kept..rich by due manure but let it not be glutted with dung.

1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg ii, in New Monthly Mag. 60 258 With light all the Square is glutted!

1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xi Crystals grown where ocean gluts Their promontory's breadth with salt.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 236 Some of the rest..so glutted the market, that the price was abated.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 111 The Dutch carry to Japan..Cloves, but in a small quantity..that the Japanese may not be glutted with them.

1757 J. Harris Ess. Money & Coins 63 The European markets are never glutted with either..gold or silver.

1768 T. Gray Let. 31 Oct. in Corr. (1971) III. 1048 Dodsley has contrived to glut the town already with two editions beforehand.

1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. iv. 173 We should ere long glut the market of the world with our commodities.

1600 J. Lane Tom Tel-Troths Message 128 I pray thee stirre my jawes that I may glut it.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 57 Hee'l be hang'd yet, Though euery drop of water sweare against it. And gape at widst to glut him. View more context for this quotation

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xii. 138 Those that glut down such immeasurable proportions of flesh.

1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) vi. 320 O that thou [Earth] would'st Gape and..glut the Murd'rer's in!

1790 A. Wilson Poems 39 Tell them a plan o' cent. per cent. They'll glut yer words like hinee.

1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 23 A throbbing light that grows and glows From glare to greater glare, until it gluts And gulfs him in.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Glut used [? read is used for] to prevent slipping, as sand and nippers glut the messenger; the fall of a tackle across the sheaves, by which it is choked or glutted.