throat
nounEtymology
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
Definitions
The front part of the neck.
- The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
The gullet or windpipe.
- As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
- The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
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Short for station throat
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in…
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place.
- This course of bricks will be upon a level for instance, higher than this part, otherwise the with the top of the door-way left for the chimney throat of the chimney will not be properly form.
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor
The inside of a timber knee.
The orifice of a tubular organ
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
To utter in or with the throat.
- He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.
- Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated.
To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.
- His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.
To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
The neighborhood
Derived
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No curated loop yet for throat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA