throat
throat is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
- 2.(Arch.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.
- 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.
- 4.(Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- 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.
- 6.To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obs.] Chapman.
- 7.To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- and
- aphonia
- aphonous
- aphony
- bated
- between
- bite
- breath
- breathless
- bridle
- broken
- button
- cave
- childish
- close
- concealment
- costive
- costiveness
- counsel
- cracked
- curt
- curtness
- cut
- deaf
- drown
- dry
- dumb
- dumbness
- dumfounder
- dummy
- dysphony
- escape
- faintness
- falsetto
- few
- finger
- fish
- gag
- grave
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is throat.
- What is a contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase called?
- What is the part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt called?
- What is (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 called?
- What is the inside of a timber knee called?
- What is to utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obs.] Chapman called?
- What is to mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Prov. Eng.] called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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