throat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a passage resembling a throat in shape or function

   the throat of the vase

2. 2
   noun

   The front part of the neck.

   The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.

3. 3
   noun

   The gullet or windpipe.

   As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.

4. 4
   noun

   A narrow opening in a vessel.

   The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)

   The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.

Etymology

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.