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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Throat

Throat, n.

noun

(thrōt, 20), n. [A. S. throte, throtu, O. H. Ger. droza, M. H. Ger. drozze, O. Fries. & D. strot, L. Ger. & O. D. strote, Up. Ger. stroz; Icel. strup, Sw. strupe, Dan. strube. Cf. THROTTLE.]

  1. (Anat.) The portion of the neck anterior to the spinal column, with its cavities or passages.
  2. Hence, the passage through which any thing is ejected upward from the lungs or stomach; the pharynx.

I can vent clamor from my throat. Shak.

  1. (Arch.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.
  2. (Naut.) (a.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast. (b.) The rounded angular point where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. Totten.
  3. (Ship-building.) The inside of the knee-timber at the middle or turns of the arms.
  4. (Bot.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux or fauces. Gray.

Throat-brails (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. — Throat-halyards, halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. — To give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one of lying abominably. — To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably. Halliwell.

Thrōat, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To utter in the throat; to mutter. [Obs. and rare.] So Hector hereto throated threats to go to sea in blood. Chapman. 2. To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Prov. Eng.]