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