Throat

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·noun The inside of a timber knee.

II. Throat ·noun That end of a gaff which is next the mast.

III. Throat ·vt To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.

IV. Throat ·noun The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

V. Throat ·noun The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

VI. Throat ·noun The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.

VII. Throat ·vt To utter in the throat; to Mutter; as, to throat threats.

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

IX. Throat ·noun The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

X. Throat ·noun Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx;

— sometimes restricted to the fauces.

XI. Throat ·noun The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

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