throat

Pronunciation: /ˈθɹəʊt/

The English word “throat” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

The front part of the neck.
The gullet or windpipe.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
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 take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *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)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish…

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