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throat
The front part of the neck.
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noun
The front part of the neck.
“The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.”
The gullet or windpipe.
“As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.”
A narrow opening in a vessel.
“The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.”
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 throat threats”
To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
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The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
to throat threats
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