throat

== English == === Alternative forms === throate, throte (all obsolete) === 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 trut. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɹəʊt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɹoʊt/ Rhymes: -əʊt === Noun === throat (plural throats) The front part of the neck. The gullet or windpipe. A narrow opening in a vessel. (rail transport) Short for station throat The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. ==== Synonyms ==== (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British) (windpipe): trachea, windpipe (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle) ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “end of a gaff next to the mast”): peak ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated) (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat. to throat threats (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.) (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending. === Further reading === throat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Throat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “throat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “throat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.