throat

Meanings

Noun

• The front part of the neck.
• The gullet or windpipe.
• A narrow opening in a vessel.
• Station throat.
• The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
• The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
• That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
• The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
• The inside of a timber knee.
• The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Verb

• To utter in or with the throat.
• To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Related

Similar words

• esophagus , gullet, oesophagus
• trachea, windpipe
• neck, bottleneck

Opposite words

• peak

Origin

• From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, 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)") (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti ("swelling"), Swedish trut.