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Definition throat

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrut? (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.

Noun

throat (plural throats)

1. The front part of the neck.
2. The gullet or windpipe.
3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
4. Station throat.
5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
6. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
8. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
9. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
10. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Verb

throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)

1. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
3. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

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