Throat
Throat (thrōt) , noun
[Old English throte, Anglo-Saxon þrote, þrotu; akin to Old High German drozza, German drossel; compare OFries. & Dutch stort. Compare Throttle.]
1.
(a) (Anatomy) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
(b)
(Anatomy) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.
I can vent clamor from my throat.
2.
A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
3.
(Architecture) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. — Gwilt
4.
(a) (Nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
(b)
(Nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
(c)
(Nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. — Totten
5.
(Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
6.
(Botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
Collocations (5)
Throat brails (Nautical) , brails attached to the gaff close to the mast.
Throat halyards (Nautical) , halyards that raise the throat of the gaff.
Throat pipe (Anatomy) , the windpipe, or trachea.
To give one the lie in his throat , to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably.
To lie in one's throat , to lie flatly or abominably.
Throat , transitive verb
1.
To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obsolete] — Chapman
2.
To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Provincial English]