Word Direct Answers

What does "throat" mean?

Throat: A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Arch.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.
  2. 3.(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.
  3. 4.(Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
  4. 5.(Bot.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. 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.
  5. 6.To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obs.] Chapman.
  6. 7.To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Prov. Eng.]

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