bowel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
    intestine; gut.

WordNet

Bow"el noun
Etymology
OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.
Definitions
  1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
    He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.
  2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
    His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak.
  3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." Shak.
    Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller.
  4. pl. Offspring. Obs. Shak.
Bow"el transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Boweled or Bowelled present participle & verbal noun Boweling or Bowelling
Definitions
  1. To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Webster 1913