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Throat

Throat (throat)
n.(thr1913 webster dictionaryt)
Throat
[OE. throte, AS. þrote, þrotu; akin to OHG. drozza, G. drossel; cf. OFries. *** D. stort. Cf. Throttle.]
  1. The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
    (b)
  2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
  3. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
    Gwilt.
  4. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
    (b)
  5. The inside of a timber knee.
  6. 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

Throat (throat)
v. t.
Throat
  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.]












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