Throat

[θrəʊt] or [θrot]

Definition

(noun.) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat.

(noun.) a passage resembling a throat in shape or function; 'the throat of the vase'; 'the throat of a chimney';.

(noun.) an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep.

(noun.) the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone.

Typist: Willie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.

(n.) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.

(n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

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

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

(n.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.

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

(n.) The inside of a timber knee.

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

(v. t.) To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.

(v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.

Typist: Theodore

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Pharynx, swallow, gullet, œsophagus.

Checker: Phelps

Definition

n. the forepart of the neck in which are the gullet and windpipe: an entrance: a narrow part of anything: (naut.) the widened and hollowed end of a gaff next the mast—opp. to Peak the outer end.—ns. Throat′-band -strap -latch a band about the throat; Throat′-bolt an eye-bolt to which to hook the throat-halyards.—n.pl. Throat′-brails those which are attached to the gaff for trussing up the sail close to the gaff as well as the mast.—adj. Throat′ed with a throat of a specified kind.—n.pl. Throat′-hal′yards those for hoisting the throat of a gaff.—adj. Throat′y formed in the throat guttural in sound.—Clergyman's sore throat an affection commonly arising from too prolonged or powerful exercise of the voice by persons in whom the mucous membrane of the throat is in a relaxed condition; Cut one's own or another's throat to pursue some course ruinous to one's own or to another's interests; Give one the lie in his throat to accuse one to his face of a lie.

Checker: Melva

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of seeing a well-developed and graceful throat, portends a rise in position. If you feel that your throat is sore, you will be deceived in your estimation of a friend, and will have anxiety over the discovery.

Typed by Eliza

Examples

Checker: Maryann

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