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Webster 1913 Edition


Throat

Throat

(thrōt)
,
Noun.
[OE.
throte
, AS.
þrote
,
þrotu
; akin to OHG.
drozza
, G.
drossel
; cf. OFries. & D.
stort
. Cf.
Throttle
.]
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
(b)
Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; – sometimes restricted to the fauces.
I can vent clamor from my
throat
.
Shakespeare
2.
A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way;
as, the
throat
of a pitcher or vase
.
3.
(Arch.)
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
Gwilt.
4.
(Naut.)
(a)
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
(b)
That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
(c)
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
Totten.
5.
(Shipbuilding)
The inside of a timber knee.
6.
(Bot.)
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
Throat brails
(Naut.)
,
brails attached to the gaff close to the mast.
Throat halyards
(Naut.)
,
halyards that raise the throat of the gaff.
Throat pipe
(Anat.)
,
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

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To utter in the throat; to mutter;
as, to
throat
threats
.
[Obs.]
Chapman.
2.
To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Throat

THROAT

, n.
1.
The anterior part of the neck of an animal, in which are the gullet and windpipe, or the passages for the food and breath.
In medicine, the fauces; all that hollow or cavity which may be seen when the mouth is wide open.
2.
In seamen's language, that end of a gaff which is next the mast.
3.
In ship-building, the inside of the knee-timber at the middle or turns of the arms; also, the inner part of the arms of an anchor where they join the shank; and the middle part of a floor-timber.
Throat-brails, brails attached to the gaff, close to the mast.
Throat-halliards, are those that raise the throat of the gaff.

THROAT

,
Verb.
T.
To mow beans in a direction against their bending. [Local.]

Definition 2024


throat

throat

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Noun

throat (plural throats)

  1. The front part of the neck.
    The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price:
      Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. [] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
    As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
    The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
  4. Station throat.
  5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
  6. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  7. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
  8. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
  9. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
  10. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

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throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)

  1. (obsolete) To utter in the throat; to mutter.
    to throat threats
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

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