throats

noun

  1. 1

    The front part of the neck.

    The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
  2. 2

    The gullet or windpipe.

    As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
  3. 3

    A narrow opening in a vessel.

    The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
  4. 4

    Station throat.

  5. 5

    The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

  6. 6

    The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

  7. 7

    That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.

  8. 8

    The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

  9. 9

    The inside of a timber knee.

  10. 10

    The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Antonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To utter in or with the throat.

    to throat threats
  2. 2

    To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)

  3. 3

    To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

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