throats
noun
- 1
The front part of the neck.
“The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.”
- 2
The gullet or windpipe.
“As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.”
- 3
A narrow opening in a vessel.
“The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.”
- 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
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- 7
That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- 8
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- 9
The inside of a timber knee.
- 10
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
Antonyms
verb
- 1
To utter in or with the throat.
“to throat threats”
- 2
To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- 3
To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
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