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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Throat \Throat\ (thr[=o]t), noun [OE. throte, AS. [thorn]rote, [thorn]rotu; 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. --Shak.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Throat \Throat\, verb (used with an object)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
throat
noun
1: the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone [syn: {pharynx}]
2: an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
3: a passage resembling a throat in shape or function; "the throat of the vase"; "the throat of a chimney";
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "throat": bottleneck, canal, channel, defile, esophagus, fauces, goozle, gorge, gullet, guzzle, hals, isthmus, narrow, narrows, neck, pass, pharynx, strait, weasand, wizen
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