GIZZARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gizzard mean? 

• GIZZARD (noun)
  The noun GIZZARD has 1 sense:

1. thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food

  Familiarity information: GIZZARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIZZARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gastric mill; gizzard; ventriculus

Hypernyms ("gizzard" is a kind of...):

pocket; pouch ((anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican))

 Context examples 

Stand aside, Arnaud, lest you find a bolt through your gizzard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, I spied nothing,” grumbled Sir Oliver, “for I was hurried down with a clam stuck in my gizzard and an untasted goblet of Cyprus on the board behind me.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)