Throat

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Throat \Throat\, v. t.
     1. To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
        [Obs.] --Chapman.
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     2. To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Throat \Throat\ (thr[=o]t), n. [OE. throte, AS. [thorn]rote,
     [thorn]rotu; akin to OHG. drozza, G. drossel; cf. OFries. &
     D. stort. Cf. {Throttle}.]
     1. (Anat.)
        (a) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the
            vertebral column.
        (b) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and
            lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the
            fauces.
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                  I can vent clamor from my throat. --Shak.
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     2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as,
        the throat of a pitcher or vase.
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     3. (Arch.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or
        portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and
        the flue. --Gwilt.
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     4. (Naut.)
        (a) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a
            staysail.
        (b) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
        (c) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the
            shank. --Totten.
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     5. (Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
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     6. (Bot.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of
        the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
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     {Throat brails} (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to
        the mast.
  
     {Throat halyards} (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of
        the gaff.
  
     {Throat pipe} (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea.
  
     {To give one the lie in his throat}, to accuse one pointedly
        of lying abominably.
  
     {To lie in one's throat}, to lie flatly or abominably.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  throat
       n 1: the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of
            the neck below the chin and above the collarbone [syn: {pharynx}]
       2: an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
       3: a passage resembling a throat in shape or function; "the
          throat of the vase"; "the throat of a chimney";

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "throat":
     bottleneck, canal, channel, defile, esophagus, fauces, goozle,
     gorge, gullet, guzzle, hals, isthmus, narrow, narrows, neck, pass,
     pharynx, strait, weasand, wizen
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  THROAT, med. jur. The anterior part of the neck. Dungl. plea. Diet. h.t.; 
  Coop. Dict. h.t.; 2 Good's Study of Med. 302; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 97, n. 
       2. The word throat, in an indictment which charged the defendant with 
  murder, by "cutting the throat of the deceased," does not mean, and is not 
  to be confined to that part of the neck which is scientifically called the 
  throat, but signifies that which is commonly called the throat. 6 Carr. & 
  Payne, 401; S. C. 25 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 458.