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Glutt Water is a name for the upper reaches of River Thurso.

Fairly close by on Berriedale Water is a parallel construction of Allt Gluta flowing through An Glut. (ND1027) “An Glut i.e. A deep hollow or a place that swallows up” OS Namebooks OS1/7/15/185

“Ian Fraser recorded An Gluta The Gullet in Eilean nan Ròn (Scottish Studies no 229 p 87) for a narrow, steepsided gully or gullet separating two islands, and, by analogy, the above name may represent the “gulping” sound of the sea” Waugh, 118