| throat |  | |
| 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. | |
