THROATS

Noun

throats

plural of throat

Verb

throats

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of throat

Anagrams

• rat shot

Source: Wiktionary


THROAT

Throat, n. Etym: [OE. throte, AS. , ; 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.)

Definition: 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)

Definition: The inside of a timber knee.

6. (Bot.)

Definition: 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, v. 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.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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