throat |
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1. n. The front part of the neck. | |
The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat. | |
2. n. The gullet or windpipe. | |
As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat. | |
3. n. A narrow opening in a vessel. | |
The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle. | |
4. n. Station throat. | |
5. n. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. | |
6. n. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. | |
7. n. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast. | |
8. n. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. | |
9. n. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee. | |
10. n. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. | |
11. v. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat. | |
to throat threats | |
12. v. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat). | |
13. v. (dialect) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending. | |