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throat.

The front part of the neck.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈθɹəʊt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈθɹoʊt/General-American

  1. The front part of the neck.

    The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.

  2. The gullet or windpipe.

    As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.

  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.

    The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.

  4. Short for station throat

    abbreviation · alt-of

  5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

  6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

  7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.

  8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

  9. The inside of a timber knee.

  10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Where this word comes from

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.

verb/ˈθɹəʊt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈθɹoʊt/General-American

  1. To utter in or with the throat.

    uncommon

  2. To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)

    informal

  3. To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

    UK · dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

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