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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 vase3.
(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.
Definition 2024
throat
throat
English
Alternative forms
- throate, throte (all obsolete)
Noun
throat (plural throats)
- 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.
- The gullet or windpipe.
- As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
- Station throat.
- 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?)
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
- (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?)
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
Synonyms
- (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British)
- (windpipe): trachea, windpipe
- (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)
Derived terms
Terms derived from throat (noun)
Related terms
Translations
front part of the neck
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gullet or windpipe
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narrow opening in a vessel
station throat — see station throat
Verb
throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)
- (obsolete) To utter in the throat; to mutter.
- to throat threats
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
