throat
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (rail transport) Short for station throatabbreviationalt-of
2. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
3. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
4. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.Examples: "The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor"
5. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
6. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
verb (English)
1. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.Examples: "He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky."; "As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ..."; "Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated."uncommon
2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)Examples: "The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises."; "His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth."informal
3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.UKdialectalobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary