■ noun
1》 the passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal.
↘the front part of the neck.
2》 literary a voice of a person or a songbird.
3》 Sailing the forward upper corner of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
Phrases
be at each other's ~s quarrel or fight.
force something down someone's ~ force something on a person's attention.
stick in one's ~ be unwelcome or unacceptable.
Derivatives
-~ed adjective
Origin
OE throte , throtu , of Gmc origin; cf. throttle .